{"id":20755,"date":"2016-03-20T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20755"},"modified":"2016-03-20T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:52:57","slug":"open-thread3202016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/open-thread3202016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/20\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept poorly last night, because the natives were restless in the unusually warm weather and made noise below my window, until well after midnight.&#160; So I\u2019m making today a relatively lazy day.&#160; I hope your weekend is excellent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:14 (\u03c0) (average 5:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-03-20-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\/2013\/03\/11\/1193298\/-Elizabeth-Warren-on-the-difference-between-a-recreational-drug-user-and-a-banker\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (Classic: 3\/2013): <font color=\"#000000\">Elizabeth Warren on the difference between a recreational drug user and a banker<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0320E_Warren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0320E_Warren\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0320E_Warren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0320E_Warren_thumb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7cKTBy7_S_I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Liz was a national treasure then, and still is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-republican-party.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Republican leaders adamantly opposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/us\/elections\/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per\">Donald J. Trump<\/a>\u2019s candidacy are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the presidential nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in Wisconsin\u2019s April 5 primary and extending into the summer, with a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort that would cast Mr. Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla fighting.<\/p>\n<p>There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could well become unstoppable.<\/p>\n<p>But should that effort falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field an independent candidate in the general election, to defend Republican principles and offer traditional conservatives an alternative to Mr. Trump\u2019s hard-edged populism. They described their plans in interviews after Mr. Trump\u2019s victories last Tuesday in Florida and three other states.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In such cases, I&#8217;m all for third party candidates running, because it would leave two Republican candidates competing for the votes of fascists, racists and idiots in the general election, virtually assuring a Democratic President Elect. The Republican leadership has to realize this. They must also realize that this may be the only way to save their party from extinction. That would be almost sure to follow anointing Fecal Dump Trump as their sole candidate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2016\/03\/19\/obama-infuriates-gop-by-proving-cubans-are-not-scary-communists-in-this-comedy-skit-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Addicting Info<\/a>: <\/font>Conservatives love to portray Cuba as an unviting hellhole, and its citizens complete monsters, so Barack Obama decided to do something about that. Preceding his historic first visit to the island nation, the President filmed a skit with Cuban TV star P\u00e1nfilo Friday so the Cuban people could get to know him.<\/p>\n<p>In the skit, P\u00e1nfilo accidentally calls the White House while attempting to call the Meteorological Institute in Casa Blanca to check the weather for a baseball game. Instead of receiving information on what Mother Nature is up to, however, he ends up on the phone with Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/umxRCqd6bdI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL!! Obama has done it again! It would not surprise me, if Republicans switch their birther accusations from Kenya to Cuba!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0320Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0320Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0320Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept poorly last night, because the natives were restless in the unusually warm weather and made noise below my window, until well after midnight.&#160; So I\u2019m making today a relatively lazy day.&#160; I hope your weekend is excellent. 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