{"id":35661,"date":"2019-02-13T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35661"},"modified":"2019-02-13T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:02:25","slug":"open-thread-2-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/open-thread-2-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/13\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; The Windows Update took half an hour.&nbsp; When Store to Door delivers my groceries, I&#8217;ll have to put them away.&nbsp; Later WWWendy is coming to de-stink that vile TomCat and help with chores.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:04 (average 4:53).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">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=IZehxDIH8aQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">&#8216;(Trump&#8217;s Rally In) El Paso&#8217; By Marty Robbins<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IZehxDIH8aQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Think about the way the original song ended. That would also work for Putin&#8217;s Pervertivo Bandito. \ud83d\ude09&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mgY47hplblM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Shameless Donald Trump Favor For Donor Threatens To Normalize Corruption (18:24)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mgY47hplblM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And remember this. Bob Murray is also the Republican corporate criminal that murdered six miners in Utah when he refused to obey safety regulations in his Crandall Canyon coal mine. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/12\/your-money\/tax-refund-decrease.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The tax preparers at H&amp;R Block had to take a new class before their busy season started this year: empathy training.<\/p>\n<p>They listened to a mock exchange between an employee and a customer whose refund would not just shrink but disappear. The fictitious client had received a $1,500 refund last year, but this year would owe $575.  <\/p>\n<p>The playacting was prescient. The tax overhaul that took effect last year promised relief, but now that returns are being filed, some people are baffled. They\u2019re getting smaller refunds \u2014 or sometimes having to write a check \u2014 even though nothing in their situation seems to have changed.  <\/p>\n<p>The average refund among early filers was down 8.4 percent, according to the Internal Revenue Service.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you are not a millionaire, and if you actually thought that the Republican Tax Scam would do <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">something for YOU, bend over, grab your ankles, and say BAAA-A-A-A-A-A!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0213Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0213Cartoon-2\" 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=\"0213Cartoon-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0213Cartoon-2.gif\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; The Windows Update took half an hour.&nbsp; When Store to Door delivers my groceries, I&#8217;ll have to put them away.&nbsp; Later WWWendy is coming to de-stink that vile TomCat and help with chores. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:04 (average 4:53).&nbsp; To do it, click <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/open-thread-2-13-2019\/' 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-35661","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\/35661","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=35661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}