{"id":31596,"date":"2018-02-27T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31596"},"modified":"2018-02-27T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:10:04","slug":"open-thread-2-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/open-thread-2-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to call for my grocery order.&#160; Tomorrow is grocery delivery day and shower day.&#160; Then on Thursday and Friday, I get super busy with the new poll and the Monthly Report.&#160; It&#8217;s going to be hectic.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:59 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">:<strong> <\/strong><strong>Lawrence: Trump&#8217;s superhero fantasy world<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">President Trump said that he would&#8217;ve run into Stoneman Douglas High School without a weapon to save children from the shooter. Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell argues that this superhero version of Trump is a total contrast to what Trump has said \u2014 and done \u2014 in real life. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_a2trumpfantasy_180226\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wheelchair, aside, I doubt that I would have run into that school. I have not been trained or equipped for that. I know that I would run into a burning building to save lives, because, trained and equipped, I have done so a few times. That coward would turn tail and run from a kitty fart! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-orders-parade-to-celebrate-his-hypothetical-act-of-heroism-in-florida-school\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: Shortly after he declared that he would have run into a Florida high school unarmed to thwart a mass shooting, Donald J. Trump announced that he was planning a parade in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his hypothetical act of heroism.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u201cAnyone can act with bravery in the moment,\u201d Trump told reporters in the White House. \u201cBut it takes a very special kind of hero to tell people about the incredibly brave thing he would have done weeks after the thing happened.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He added that it was one of his greatest regrets that bone spurs prevented him from serving in the Vietnam War, \u201cbecause the really courageous things I would have done during that war would have been off the charts.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Well, I see that Andy is doing straight reporting again. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/cpac-has-always-been-odious-spectacle-year-was-special\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: For some reason, this year&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, seems to have gotten more attention than usual. That&#8217;s saying something, since for the last 15 years or so it&#8217;s gotten much more attention than it deserves. CPAC is like a 10-car pile-up \u2014 frightening and horrible, but you can&#8217;t look away.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Salon&#8217;s <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/02\/24\/the-republican-party-now-and-forever-trumpified\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Binckes<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> and <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/02\/25\/is-trump-bending-the-gop-to-his-will-its-more-the-other-way-around\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Sheffield<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> have each weighed in on this year&#8217;s event &#8212; with Binckes making the case that it shows that the GOP is now thoroughly Trumpified while Sheffield argues that it&#8217;s now Trump who&#8217;s been absorbed by the Republican Party. I think CPAC shows that the Trump strain has always been slithering around under the rock of conservative movement politics, and 2016 just turned it over and let it run amok.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is one good thing we can say about CPUKE. It&#8217;s over. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-son-announces-congress-run\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: Bernie Sanders\u2019 son says he\u2019s running for Congress in New Hampshire.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Levi Sanders is joining seven fellow Democrats and three Republicans in this year\u2019s race for the 1st Congressional District. Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is stepping down after her term ends.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The 48-year-old Sanders has lived in New Hampshire for 15 years. He\u2019s in Claremont, in the 2nd Congressional District. The U.S. Constitution requires only that U.S. House members reside in the state they serve, not necessarily in the same district.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The son of the Independent Vermont senator proposes a \u201cMedicare for all health care system;\u201d tuition-free public college; a higher minimum wage; and \u201csensible gun legislation.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Levi! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0227Cartoon.jpg\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0227Cartoon\" 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=\"0227Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0227Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Free Leonard Peltier!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to call for my grocery order.&#160; Tomorrow is grocery delivery day and shower day.&#160; Then on Thursday and Friday, I get super busy with the new poll and the Monthly Report.&#160; It&#8217;s going to be hectic. 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