{"id":20990,"date":"2016-03-30T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20990"},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:54:08","slug":"open-thread3302016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/open-thread3302016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/30\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m waiting for Lu to arrive for my shower.  Because she is having another meltdown in her personal life, I have a hunch I\u2019m going to be taking another whore\u2019s bath in the sink.  It\u2019s also a grocery delivery day, so I\u2019m quite busy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:53 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Moments after successfully unlocking the San Bernardino iPhone, the F.B.I. rendered the phone permanently useless by spilling a glass of water on it, an F.B.I. spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Calling the accident \u201cone of the biggest embarrassments in F.B.I. history,\u201d bureau spokesman Harland Dorrinson told reporters, \u201cThere\u2019s no way to express how bad we feel about what happened to that phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walking reporters through the mishap, Dorrinson said that shortly after the iPhone was unlocked, \u201cThere were a lot of high-fives, which led to the unfortunate spilling of the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

After repeatedly attempting to reboot the phone with no success, the F.B.I. consulted several Apple support forums for tips on fixing a waterlogged iPhone. \u201cI wish I could report that any of them worked,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

I wish, Andy! He does, however, describe Apple support pretty well!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>I caught some of Chris Hayes\u2019 \u201cAll In\u201d tonight on MSNBC. One of his guests was Susan Sarandon and a more sanctimonious privileged twit I haven\u2019t seen in some time. She made it quite clear that she hates Clinton and pretty much supports the stupid idea that it\u2019s fine not to vote for Hillary in the general if she winds up being the nominee. But when Chris pushed on whether she herself would not vote for the nominee if it was Hillary, she coyly demurred and said she\u2019d have to see. But then she showed her true colors by merrily claiming that if Trump were elected President, we\u2019d get the \u201crevolution\u201d immediately. What unadulterated crap!<\/p>\n

I fully agree with the author. Sarandon is full of IT. Only an idiot could not understand that once the Reich takes power, the Revolution is over, its supporters either killed or imprisoned. For example, Russia had a left-wing Revolution in 1914. After 1917, the right-wing Russian Reich killed it.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>When police charged Donald Trump\u2019s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with misdemeanor battery<\/a> on Tuesday, they also released a video<\/a> that clearly showed Lewandowski physically grabbing and pulling former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. <\/p>\n

In response, Fox News ran a segment featuring two legal experts who argued that, well, maybe Lewandowski did grab her \u2014 but was it really so bad?<\/p>\n

Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl went first.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnically, it\u2019s there,\u201d said Wiehl, an adjunct law professor at New York Law School. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I were a prosecutor if I would have charged that. I would definitely talk to the quote-un-quote victim, but when you\u2019re in a place like that and you\u2019re shouting like that and you\u2019re moving forward, it\u2019s not necessarily\u2026 yes, it\u2019s a chargeable offense, but I don\u2019t think I would have charged it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Morris County prosecutor Robert Bianchi weighed in next. He agreed with Wiehl that he wouldn\u2019t have charged Lewandowski, and said physical contact was normal for a contentious political season. <\/p>\n

Contact is normal when Republicans are involved, like when Bush staffers attacked the Dade County Canvassing Board to prevent them from finishing the Florida recount in 2000, allowing Potomac Pinocchio to steal the Presidency. It’s not just Fecal Dump. It’s what Republicans do.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m waiting for Lu to arrive for my shower.  Because she is having another meltdown in her personal life, I have a hunch I\u2019m going to be taking another whore\u2019s bath in the sink.  It\u2019s also a grocery delivery day, so I\u2019m quite busy. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:53 (average 5:04).  To do […]<\/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-20990","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\/20990","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=20990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}