{"id":35666,"date":"2019-02-14T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35666"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:43:35","slug":"open-thread-2-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/14\/open-thread-2-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/14\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Valentines Day has arrived once again.&nbsp; I gave WWWendy her gift last night.&nbsp; It&#8217;s one that I&#8217;ll never get to see.&nbsp; I hope you all have a purrrrfect day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 4:55).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-14-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=tsfPwVhbPLk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Best (And Worst) Valentine&#8217;s Day Gifts<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tsfPwVhbPLk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I had the button, the light would go out, as soon as I got into the bed. The cinnamon rolls looked good. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLTH4RtnMRA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Visitors find racially offensive book in congressman&#8217;s office<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nLTH4RtnMRA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like most Republican lawmakers, Ferguson loves to study the basis for Republican ideology and policy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/el-chapo-says-he-is-victim-of-phony-witch-hunt\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In his first interview since being found guilty on all counts in his U.S. trial, the Mexican drug lord Joaqu\u00edn (El Chapo) Guzm\u00e1n called himself the victim of a \u201cphony witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former cartel leader made his blistering comments in a phone call to the television program \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d whose hosts appeared surprised that he had somehow gained access to a phone and was able to get through to them.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a phony witch hunt,\u201d El Chapo said, of his trial. \u201cIt was a phony, rigged witch hunt, and the charges against me were fake news and a disgrace.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Questioned whether he had worked in concert with other drug lords to bring narcotics into the United States, El Chapo said, \u201cThere was no collusion. And there was no evidence of collusion, because there was no collusion.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! I bet he&#8217;s waiting for a pardon from the Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0214Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It worked with GW, but wouldn&#8217;t with Trump.&nbsp; He&#8217;d enjoy it too much.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentines Day has arrived once again.&nbsp; I gave WWWendy her gift last night.&nbsp; It&#8217;s one that I&#8217;ll never get to see.&nbsp; I hope you all have a purrrrfect day! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 4:55).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? 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