{"id":14849,"date":"2015-03-05T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2015-03-05T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:12:17","slug":"open-thread352015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/open-thread352015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/5\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is today\u2019s only article, because I\u2019m about to leave to exchange my cell phone.&#160; The store isn&#8217;t far, but it tales a bus, a train and a half mile on foot to get there.&#160; I\u2019m ready for some rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:15 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-03-05-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; 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=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/03\/03\/1368308\/-Reagan-adviser-to-GOP-They-are-really-rather-stupid-and-not-very-well-read\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Last week at CPAC potential Republican candidates were invoking President Ronald Reagan ad-nauseam. Ed Schultz asked Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to Reagan, how would Reagan have been treated at CPAC. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/65k0DWNKkcs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Saint Ronnie Ray Gun is as much like the real Reagan as Republican Supply-side Jesus is like the real Jesus: not at all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/hes-black-hes-a-cop-hes-also-been-stopped-and-frisked-30-times\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>He was upset when the police stopped him the first time. But by the 30th time, there was an ironic reason why he was downright embarrassed. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6uAcwD3rD9c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Somehow I suspect that the problem there is nowhere near as bad as it is on this side of the pond.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/boehner-invites-man-who-hated-obama-in-high-school-to-address-congress\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>House Speaker John Boehner has scheduled a joint session of Congress in April to hear an address by Kevin Laggett, a man who is on record as having hated President Obama in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Boehner, who personally extended the invitation to Laggett, said that he did not consult with the President before contacting his high-school nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has nothing to do with the President,\u201d Boehner said. \u201cMany of us in Congress are very interested in what Mr. Laggett has to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a source who attended high school with both men, Laggett\u2019s antipathy for the President began when Obama was chosen over him for the post of sports editor on the school newspaper. \u201cKevin has totally despised him ever since,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While I would not be surprised, if Andy&#8217;s satire were true, Agent Orange had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/the-butcher-bibi-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">far more devious reasons for inviting Butcher Bibi<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0305Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0305Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/0305Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s only article, because I\u2019m about to leave to exchange my cell phone.&#160; The store isn&#8217;t far, but it tales a bus, a train and a half mile on foot to get there.&#160; I\u2019m ready for some rest. 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