{"id":39049,"date":"2020-02-24T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39049"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:28:06","slug":"open-thread-2-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/open-thread-2-24-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/24\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday WWWendy and I cooked up a storm.&nbsp; We made liquified Progresso Italian Wedding Soup and crackers, liquified Campbell\u2019s Chunky Sirloin Burger Soup and spaghetti, liquified chili con carne, rice, mixed veggies, tomatoes, jalapenos, and chili powder (watch out Squatch), liquified fried eggs, hash browns, and milk, and liquified sliced peaches and cottage cheese.&nbsp; The chili was damn good, for baby food.&nbsp; The Chunky (NOT!) Soup wasn\u2019t bad.&nbsp; The eggs and taters were a problem, because they glopped-up in the fridge overnight.&nbsp; I needed to add a load of milk to soften it up.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it hardened while I was eating it.&nbsp; Bring on the heartburn.&nbsp; It will be trial and error.&nbsp; Today was supposed to be a lazy day, but I had to work on my grocery list and schedule my PET Scan (for Friday) and Lift rides.&nbsp; Oh God, it\u2019s Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:31 (average 4:58).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-02-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/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\/2018\/02\/0224Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/2\/22\/1921205\/-Horrible-pro-Trump-group-glues-MAGA-hats-and-Trump-wig-to-Las-Vegas-pigeons-to-protest-Democrats?detail=emaildkre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">In an unapologetic display of animal cruelty, an anonymous group of terrible people released over two dozen pigeons into Las Vegas, with political accessories affixed to their heads. The group, which will not be named here, released the abused birds on Tuesday, in a \u201csarcastic\u201d protest of the Democratic presidential debate the next day.<\/font>&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"388\" title=\"0224MAGAPigeonsinLasVegas\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0224MAGAPigeonsinLasVegas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0224MAGAPigeonsinLasVegas.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans have no qualms about cruelty to animals. Look how cruel they are to people. And why did they need birds in the first place?&nbsp; Deplorable Republicans also wear MAGA hats, also squawk and tweet about their criminal Fuhrer Trump*, and also shit all over everything.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/02\/23\/808645524\/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-killed-in-crash-of-homemade-rocket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">The daredevil &#8220;Mad&#8221; Mike Hughes was killed in a rocket launch gone wrong Saturday in Barstow, Calif., two witnesses to the accident confirmed. He was 64.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>It was the third launch for Hughes in one of his homemade rockets and part of his eventual plan to be able to determine for himself, up in the sky, if Earth was as flat as he proclaimed to believe.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Anyone, who would get in a homemade rocket to prove the earth is flat, was so stupid, that he has to be a Republican. Condolences to his family, but I&#8217;m sure glad Trump* can&#8217;t appoint that dingbat to head the National Science Foundation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=08083BNaYcA&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=72&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Gerry &amp; The Pacemakers &#8211; Ferry Cross The Mersey (1965)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/08083BNaYcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday WWWendy and I cooked up a storm.&nbsp; We made liquified Progresso Italian Wedding Soup and crackers, liquified Campbell\u2019s Chunky Sirloin Burger Soup and spaghetti, liquified chili con carne, rice, mixed veggies, tomatoes, jalapenos, and chili powder (watch out Squatch), liquified fried eggs, hash browns, and milk, and liquified sliced peaches and cottage cheese.&nbsp; The <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/open-thread-2-24-2020\/' 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":[3908,3704,3711,3746,3751,3718,3705,3706,3909,3714],"class_list":["post-39049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animal-rights","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-teabuggery","tag-video","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\/39049","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=39049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}