{"id":35629,"date":"2019-02-09T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35629"},"modified":"2019-02-09T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:12:31","slug":"open-thread-2-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/open-thread-2-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/9\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s still cold here in the CatBox, and we still have a Winter Storm Warning.&nbsp; Tomorrow I may have no more than a Personal Update with no links messages.&nbsp; WWWendy will be here to thaw the stinky, iced TomCat under hot water.&nbsp; We have so much to get done, I&#8217;ll have little or no time for research and writing.&nbsp; After hours of work, our transition to SSL is now complete.&nbsp; The authentication and encryption our&nbsp; SSL provide helps secure our content&nbsp; and connections from attacks by the Republican Reich and their Russian allies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:24 (average 5:55).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-09-CE2504A965A9\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=0Aa8x_ql1L8\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Ex-DOJ Official: Whitaker Testimony \u2018An Embarrassment To The DOJ\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0Aa8x_ql1L8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no doubt that evidence will surface that Shitaker lied under oath, He is an embarrassment to the country, not just the DOJ. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_j1xIVWHB0o\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Whitaker clashes with lawmaker over donations<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_j1xIVWHB0o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What America needs to understand is that nobody can qualify for any high office in the Republican Reich without being thoroughly vetted to demonstrate long-term criminal history and intent. Shitaker personifies this truth. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/02\/efforts-to-oust-maine-republican-susan-collins-intensify-after-kavanaughs-anti-abortion-bote\/\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>After Justice Brett Kavanaugh was condemned on Thursday for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/02\/08\/after-dissent-louisiana-abortion-case-warnings-kavanaugh-has-declared-war-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\">declaring \u201cwar\u201d on Roe v. Wade<\/a> by dissenting against the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to block a Louisiana anti-abortion law, reproductive rights groups quickly turned their ire toward Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/explosion-anger-promises-oust-her-2020-after-susan-collins-says-yes-brett-kavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\">casting the decisive vote<\/a> to confirm the right-wing judge\u2014and ramped up their efforts to oust her in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaging Senator Collins\u2014this is on you,\u201d UltraViolet declared on Twitter after the high court\u2019s 5-4 decision.<\/p>\n<p>A grassroots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/tens-thousands-people-raising-money-defeat-collins-if-she-votes-kavanaugh-not\" target=\"_blank\">fundraising effort to unseat Collins<\/a> after her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/explosion-anger-promises-oust-her-2020-after-susan-collins-says-yes-brett-kavanaugh\" target=\"_blank\">decisive vote last year to confirm Kavanaugh<\/a> has already raised millions of dollars, and the advocacy group Demand Justice announced in an email to supporters on Friday morning that it will run digital ads in Maine highlighting the judge\u2019s dissent in the Louisiana case as yet another reason the Maine Republican should be ousted in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrett Kavanaugh has declared war on Roe, and Susan Collins is the one who made it possible,\u201d Demand Justice director Brian Fallon said. \u201cEven as it was obvious to everyone else that Kavanaugh was a partisan warrior committed to rolling back abortion rights, Collins defended her vote for him by promising that he would follow Supreme Court precedent. It only took four months for Kavanaugh to prove Collins\u2019 promises were a sham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not agree more. We came close to defeating the nomination of Injustice Pervert Kava-Nazi. We failed when Collins betrayed her promis<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">e with the ridiculous excuse that he would protect women&#8217;s right to choose. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/0209Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still cold here in the CatBox, and we still have a Winter Storm Warning.&nbsp; Tomorrow I may have no more than a Personal Update with no links messages.&nbsp; WWWendy will be here to thaw the stinky, iced TomCat under hot water.&nbsp; We have so much to get done, I&#8217;ll have little or no time <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/open-thread-2-9-2019\/' 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-35629","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\/35629","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=35629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}