{"id":21183,"date":"2016-04-09T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21183"},"modified":"2016-04-09T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:10:30","slug":"open-thread492016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/open-thread492016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/9\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m waiting for Lu to come for my shower.&#160; She\u2019s already over an hour late.&#160; I&#8217;ll probably be scarce this week, as it\u2019s 6 days until Infernal Revenue Day, I still have both personal taxes and taxes for my prison volunteer organization to do, and I also have three appointments, and a grocery delivery day this week,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:02 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-04-09-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\/stories\/2016\/4\/7\/1511882\/-TX-school-officer-caught-on-video-body-slamming-12-year-old-girl-knocking-her-unconscious-video\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">San Antonio Independent School District Officer Joshua Kehm was captured on video brutally body-slamming a 12-year-old girl who attends Rhodes Middle School.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/__GRdC_J_ng?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the Republican way to run schools and teach children,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/ken-burns-explains-colbert-why-rise-trump-and-white-supremacy-america-doesnt-surprise-him\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: When considering major themes in American history, which he often covers, filmmaker Ken Burns put racism at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kUYKIKaFIEc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree, but I think we had driven racism into the closet, before the Republican Party adopted it and brought it back into the mainstream.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2016\/04\/bill-maher-republicans-theres-no-shame\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Real Time host Bill Maher during his New Rules segment this Friday explains to what&#8217;s left of the &quot;sane&quot; wing of the Republican party why they should vote for Hillary Clinton this election cycle and focus on rebuilding their party instead. If we wind up with Clinton and Trump in the general, I expect a lot of the so-called &quot;GOP establishment&quot; will do exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OXzBOt44SYI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And a bonus!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oEETpLQuT-w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gotta love Bill!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0409Cartoon\" 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=\"0409Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0409Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans consider this a cruel hoax.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m waiting for Lu to come for my shower.&#160; She\u2019s already over an hour late.&#160; I&#8217;ll probably be scarce this week, as it\u2019s 6 days until Infernal Revenue Day, I still have both personal taxes and taxes for my prison volunteer organization to do, and I also have three appointments, and a grocery delivery day <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/open-thread492016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-21183","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\/21183","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=21183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}