{"id":35736,"date":"2019-02-20T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35736"},"modified":"2019-02-20T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:42:23","slug":"open-thread-2-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/open-thread-2-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/20\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly, busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door will deliver my grocery order, and I need to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; Later WWWendy comes to de-stink the rancid TomCat and help with chores.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Todays took me 3:52 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-20-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=JKzFpdWWYcI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Liberal Redneck &#8211; Bernie or Warren or Whoever&#8217;s Left<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JKzFpdWWYcI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why am I not surprised that my top two are also Trey&#8217;s?&nbsp; Nevertheless, vote BLUE no matter who! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgJagAiHimk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCH1dpzjCEiGAt8CXkryhkZg\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">VISION<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZgJagAiHimk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This an excellent ad. Bernie is making a very strong start. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/dukakis-announces-2020-bid-everyone-else-is\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis announced on Tuesday morning that he would seek the Democratic nomination for President, declaring, \u201cEveryone else is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his rationale for running, the 1988 Democratic Presidential nominee told reporters, \u201cAs everyone else started jumping into the race, I started feeling a little left out.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Dukakis explained, \u201cPeople have been stopping me on the street and saying that they thought I was already running. So, whatever.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Maybe Ducky Kisses will win. Ya think? <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\/2018\/02\/0220Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly, busy day here at the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door will deliver my grocery order, and I need to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; Later WWWendy comes to de-stink the rancid TomCat and help with chores.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day! Jig Zone Puzzle: Todays took me 3:52 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/open-thread-2-20-2019\/' 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-35736","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\/35736","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=35736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}