{"id":31543,"date":"2018-02-23T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31543"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:12:40","slug":"open-thread-2-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/23\/open-thread-2-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here at the CatBox, the outside temperature got down to 23\u00b0 this morning, setting another record.&#160; After today, it should start to warm up.&#160; I hope you all have a wonderful, Republican-free weekend!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:12 (average 5:27).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jFJvNekGKZU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How conspiracy theories about Parkland shooting survivors spread<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jFJvNekGKZU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As usual, the Republican Reich has earned a PhD (pilled higher and deeper) in Bullshitology! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1C3coXw2AI0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump considers pulling ICE agents to punish California<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1C3coXw2AI0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten pulled ICE from CA, wouldn&#8217;t most Californians call that a blessing, not a punishment? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/22\/us\/nikolas-cruz-florida-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The only armed sheriff\u2019s deputy at a Florida high school where 17 people were killed took cover outside rather than charging into the building when the massacre began, the Broward County sheriff said on Thursday. The sheriff also acknowledged that his office received 23 calls related to the suspect going back a decade, including one last year that said he was collecting knives and guns, but may not have adequately followed up.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy, Scot Peterson, resigned on Thursday after being suspended without pay after Sheriff Scott Israel reviewed surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never went in,\u201d Sheriff Israel said in a news conference. He said the video showed Deputy Peterson doing \u201cnothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words,\u201d said Sheriff Israel, who described himself as \u201cdevastated, sick to my stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two other deputies were placed on restricted duty on Thursday because they may have mishandled tips called in to the sheriff\u2019s office over the past two years warning that the suspect, Nikolas Cruz, appeared intent on becoming a school shooter, Sheriff Israel said.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations added to a growing list of failures and missed signs by the authorities that might have helped prevent one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Peterson should not be allowed to retire. His pension should be stripped, and he should be fired. The GOP\/NRA &quot;good guys with guns&quot; mantra is hogwash! On the missed signs and mishandled reports, incompetence just what foolish voters get, when they elect Republicans. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-furious-after-twitters-bot-purge-leaves-him-with-fourteen-followers\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump was reportedly \u201cfurious\u201d on Wednesday morning after a purge of right-wing bots by Twitter left him with a total of fourteen remaining followers, aides have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Rising at 3 a.m. to engage in one of his trademark early-morning tweetstorms, Trump was incensed to discover that his Twitter following had plummeted from more than forty-eight million to a little more than a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>At Twitter headquarters, in San Francisco, a company spokesman confirmed that Trump had indeed lost 48,076,920 followers in the bot purge. \u201cIt turned out that over forty-six million of the President\u2019s followers came from a single troll farm in Macedonia,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, Trump\u2019s fourteen remaining Twitter followers included his daughter Ivanka; his sons Eric and Donald, Jr.; several White House aides; and someone named Heinrich Himmler III.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! LOL!! I&#8217;m sure not surprised. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0223Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0223Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0223Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve used this on this date for five years now.&#160; It&#8217;s perennially relevant.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the CatBox, the outside temperature got down to 23\u00b0 this morning, setting another record.&#160; After today, it should start to warm up.&#160; I hope you all have a wonderful, Republican-free weekend! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:12 (average 5:27).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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