{"id":53960,"date":"2024-02-13T06:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53960"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:18:00","slug":"open-thread-february-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/13\/open-thread-february-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was quiet enough.\u00a0 I had sent Nameless a quick email the night before congratulating KC in the SuperBowl win, and he responded with a video of fans celebrating at the Electric Company, with plumes of steam (I guess it was) blowing.\u00a0 And when that video ended is showed so many links t animal videos I didn&#8217;t have that I wasted an hour or two looking them all\u00a0 up and keeping a record of most of them. OK, that wasnt really a waste.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/02\/12\/bipartisan-proposal-new-medical-school-unc-new-doctors-vets-statewide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNC, which is in Greeley<\/a>, I presume has a fine medical school, but it&#8217;s the veterinary school which has a national reputation. I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s being included. I also hope a bunch of the MDs will be OBGs &#8211; Republicans have greatly multiplied the patient base for that specialty.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the lead article in this newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/on-the-road-to-fascism-a-pit-stop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(the first three titled paragraphs)<\/a> because it makes no excuses for the stupid &#8211; stupid, after all, is stupid. And it reveals the game and gives us alittle something to throw back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wz9n2KWw214?si=49GI28tkHHbom1qW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-teU4m-hrc?si=FAgZwWGIHt2U0PB1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/forgot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/forgot.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/forgot-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/forgot-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was quiet enough.\u00a0 I had sent Nameless a quick email the night before congratulating KC in the SuperBowl win, and he responded with a video of fans celebrating at the Electric Company, with plumes of steam (I guess it was) blowing.\u00a0 And when that video ended is showed so many links t animal <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/13\/open-thread-february-13-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4837,4344,4531,5701,3745,4358,5702,3831],"class_list":["post-53960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-history","tag-colorado","tag-dogs","tag-medical-school","tag-nato","tag-the-constitution","tag-veterinary-school","tag-world","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\/53960","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}