{"id":35597,"date":"2019-02-07T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35597"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:33:49","slug":"open-thread-2-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/open-thread-2-7-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/7\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy was tied up at her day job, so she&#160; arrived about 40 minutes late last night.&#160; I got to bed late, and I&#8217;m feeling very tired.&#160; It&#8217;s currently 27\u00b0 F.&#160; This is the warmest day until late next week.&#160; Brrrr!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:37 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-07-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=c1a7LgbOh6Q\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#333333\">During hearings on Gun Violence, Republican gets smashed by audience and Democrats<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#333333\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/c1a7LgbOh6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Damn Ammosexual Republican Racist! Put a .50 cal. with a drum magazine and a bump-stock up his butt and pull the trigger! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypTQ1eY7v60\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>House Intel Outlines Parameters Of Donald Trump Investigations (18+ min.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ypTQ1eY7v60\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten threatened Democrats over investigation, he waved a red flag at a bull. Charge! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/virginia-blackface-mark-herring.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The third-ranking elected official in Virginia, Attorney General Mark R. Herring, acknowledged Wednesday that he had worn blackface at a party as an undergraduate student, deepening a crisis that has engulfed the state\u2019s Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just two hours later, a woman came forward to describe in detail her accusation that Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax had sexually assaulted her in 2004, an accusation he denies.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back revelations threw the Capitol into a state of uncertainty about who would lead Virginia, coming less than one week after the disclosure of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/05\/us\/northam-yearbook.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">racist photograph on the yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam<\/a> led to demands for his resignation. Grim-faced legislators rushed through the hallways, shaken by a series of allegations and confessions that threatened to cripple the Virginia government\u2019s three leading officials.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the tumult, Democratic lawmakers were all but paralyzed in the face of a deeply painful sequence of events that could undermine their hopes of reclaiming the State Legislature, the Republicans\u2019 last remaining foothold of power in Virginia, in the fall. The party has not lost a statewide election here since 2009, and Virginia was the only Southern state President Trump lost in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I see the case of the AG differently.&#160; First, he was in college, not med school. Second, he came forward to apologize without having been caught. Third, after admitting it, he isn&#8217;t claiming that it wasn&#8217;t him. In such cases, the authentic contrition he demonstrated could occasion forgiveness without derailing his career. However, if he does step down, he should do so before Northam, so Northam can appoint a new AG, ideally a black woman. If all three resign, without replacing the AG, the next in line for Governor is a very racist Republican. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0207Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWWendy was tied up at her day job, so she&#160; arrived about 40 minutes late last night.&#160; I got to bed late, and I&#8217;m feeling very tired.&#160; It&#8217;s currently 27\u00b0 F.&#160; This is the warmest day until late next week.&#160; Brrrr!!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:37 (average 4:53).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/open-thread-2-7-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}