{"id":20416,"date":"2016-03-07T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20416"},"modified":"2016-03-07T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T20:42:29","slug":"open-thread372015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/open-thread372015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/7\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I screwed up.  I thought my grocery delivery this week was tomorrow.  Instead, it’s today, so I have to juggle my plans.  I’m getting Safeway.com, because I have an appointment on Wednesday that conflicts with my normal Store to Door delivery.  I’m in a rush.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Godwin's Law officially suspended for the duration of the 2016 presidential cycle<\/p>\n

\"0307trumpnazi\"<\/p>\n

Godwin's Law<\/strong> – a common meme used by Republicans, other fascists, pseudo-intellectuals, and people with their heads in the sand or in smellier places, whenever anyone points out the verifiable commonalities between today's Republican Party and Germany's National Socialist Party, just before Hitler became dictator. <\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Peyton Manning, the Denver Broncos quarterback and Super Bowl 50 victor who amassed a passel of records and was among the N.F.L.’s most popular players in his 18 seasons in the league, will retire, hobbled by several career-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Manning was to speak to the news media on Monday at 1 p.m. Eastern time at the Broncos’ facility south of Denver. ESPN was the first on Sunday to report the news of his retirement.<\/p>\n

\"Sad\"Crying\"Sad\"Crying\"Sad<\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>An Idaho pastor was shot in the parking lot of his church on Sunday afternoon, one day after delivering a prayer at a campaign rally for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), NBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police told NBC that Rev. Tim Remington, the 55-year-old senior pastor of the Altar Church in Coeur d’Alene, was in critical but stable condition after suffering multiple gun shot wounds to the skull and back.<\/p>\n

Couer d’Alene police identified the suspect as Kyle Andrew Odom, a white male in his mid-30s who they said was last seen driving a 2004 silver Honda Accord. In a press release posted to the department's Facebook page<\/a>, police said they were working to obtain a warrant for Odom’s arrest and warned that he should be considered “armed and dangerous.”<\/p>\n

The associate pastor of Altar Church, John Padula, told NBC that surveillance video showed a man sitting in a silver car in the parking lot waiting for Remington to exit the building.<\/p>\n

Police did not offer a motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n

If I had to speculate, I'd say that Odom is a Republican who supports Hateful Hairball, but that's just an educated guess. If, God forbid, he's a lefty, I condemn his violence and ask him to defect to the Republican Party. There's no pace for such violence on the left.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0307Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I screwed up.  I thought my grocery delivery this week was tomorrow.  Instead, it’s today, so I have to juggle my plans.  I’m getting Safeway.com, because I have an appointment on Wednesday that conflicts with my normal Store to Door delivery.  I’m in a rush. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:54).  To […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20416","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\/20416","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=20416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}