{"id":20776,"date":"2016-03-21T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20776"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:12:20","slug":"open-thread3212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/open-thread3212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/21\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m off to another late start today, because, before doing my research, I planned my grocery list for the week.&#160; Then I made a five day batch of my infamous \u03b3\u03ad\u03b5\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1 chili.&#160; I\u2019ll eat a bunch tonight, and tomorrow, I\u2019ll look for Republicans to stand in front of.&#160; I\u2019m about to take a break for lunch, and I<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u2019m just starting to write.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 5:21).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-03-21-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/3\/4\/1495900\/-Ted-Koppel-telling-O-Reilly-he-s-ruined-political-journalism-in-America-is-fun-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Ted Koppel and Bill O\u2019Reilly are apparently friendly. They seem to have a professional relationship that extends into cocktail parties and other events that I think can be described as \u201cswanky.\u201d Koppel will have civil conversations with O\u2019Reilly on The O\u2019Reilly Factor\u2014it usually coincides with promoting a book. Bill, feeling the pressure of last night\u2019s [<em>3\/3<\/em>] debate coming up and the interview with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in his future, wanted to get some pointers from the veteran Koppel.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lUMtNM3sDLA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And Koppel accurately describing the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, is nothing new, as you shall see.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UmXNVdAsudQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Ted Koppel: Fox News &#8216;Bad for America&#8217; <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UmXNVdAsudQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Koppel. Honest unbiased journalism is usually categorized as &quot;liberal&quot;, because the center of the media spectrum is so far right-biased. What O&#8217;Lielly calls noble, I call evil.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/21\/world\/americas\/obama-arrives-in-cuba.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Shouts of \u201cU.S.A.!\u201d and \u201cObama!\u201d echoed over the stone plazas as President Obama and his family made their way around rain-slicked courtyards in Old Havana on Sunday evening, savoring the adulation of Cubans welcoming him warmly despite a driving rain as he began a history-making visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to Cuba! We like you!\u201d a man shouted as Mr. Obama\u2019s entourage passed. Above, a woman applauded and hooted from her wrought-iron balcony.<\/p>\n<p>Later, a motorcade including the presidential limousine, adorned for the first time with Cuban and American flags, snaked through narrow streets where elated residents, their clothing soaked from waiting in the rain, hoisted cellphones and cheered the first sitting American leader to set foot on Cuban soil in 88 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama himself marveled aloud at the significance of his trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a historic opportunity to engage directly with the Cuban people and to forge new agreements and commercial deals,\u201d he told employees of the United States Embassy, his first stop in the country, \u201cand build new ties between our two peoples, and for me to lay out my vision for a future that\u2019s brighter than our past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Obama. 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