{"id":21503,"date":"2016-04-28T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2016-04-28T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:35:03","slug":"open-thread-4282016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/open-thread-4282016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/28\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pardon my brevity.  I needed a morning nap. and I need to get this done and up in time to go to the prison.  That\u2019s actually a huge sacrifice, because today is a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  The draft is tonight.  I hope my Broncos get a good first round pick.  Store to Door just left, so I have the rest of my groceries.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:35 (average 4:16).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Just how desperate is North Carolina GOP Gov. Pat McCrory to lay the blame for HB2 on anyone but himself? Well, this sitting governor has now released an attack email against a sitting mayor: Charlotte’s Jennifer Roberts. Nothing like punching downward\u2014that\u2019s what all the political analysts recommend. Jim Morrill has the details<\/a> on McCrory’s latest re-election strategy, starting with the email\u2019s headline:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRoy Cooper Ally Jennifer Roberts Admitted She Thought About Leaving Out The Bathroom Mandate, But Pushed It Through Anyway,\u201d a headline says. […]<\/p>\n

McCrory\u2019s email includes TV<\/a> and radio clips<\/a> of Roberts talking about House Bill 2. […]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clips \u2026 should help refresh your memory that the topic of bathrooms was first raised by the radical left when \u2013 over warnings from the governor and other state leaders that they should have left restroom norms way they were and focus on things \u2026 Roy Cooper\u2019s allies decided to push through Charlotte\u2019s radical bathroom mandate anyway,\u201d said McCrory campaign spokesman Ricky Diaz.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fact: Charlotte passed a measure that affirmed people’s judgment in making the appropriate bathroom choice.<\/p>\n

Fact: North Carolina lawmakers passed a Big Brother bill dictating to people which bathrooms they must use, because apparently The People can’t be entrusted with such a decision.<\/p>\n

This whole \u201cCharlotte made us do it!\u201d shtick is just ridiculous.<\/p>\n

There is only one man who opted to sign HB2 into law, Hatefuhrer of the Republican Theocratic Dictatorship of McCrorystan, Par McCrory,<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In choosing the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina as his running mate, Senator Ted Cruz hopes to tap into the immense popularity of one of the most beloved public figures in America.<\/p>\n

Minutes after the news of Cruz\u2019s selection leaked, political insiders called the choice of the wildly adored Fiorina a game-changer for the Cruz campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that Ted Cruz has some trouble with likeability,\u201d the Republican strategist Harland Dorrinson said. \u201cWhat better way to fix that than by choosing Carly Fiorina, a person everyone is absolutely crazy about?\u201d<\/p>\n

Fiorina\u2019s reputation for winning the hearts of everyone she comes in contact with dates back to her days as the incredibly well-liked C.E.O. of Hewlett-Packard and, before that, Lucent Technologies.<\/p>\n

Andy may have screwed the pooch here. The HP employees, with whom I dealt regularly for years, all spoke of her in profane uncomplimentary terms, the most common rhyming with stitch. I think that TRUSed Uranus Cruz is so desperate that he’s offering a chance at the VP slot in hopes of getting lucky with Carly. His taste is as extreme as his policies.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Battered by four defeats in Tuesday night\u2019s primaries, Bernie Sanders<\/a> is planning to lay off hundreds of campaign staffers across the country and focus much of his remaining effort on winning the June 7 California primary.<\/p>\n

That confirms the end of the nomination fight, but I will still vote for him in the Oregon Primary. On to the platform fight.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0428TCPrison\"<\/p>\n

I hope they let me out!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pardon my brevity.  I needed a morning nap. and I need to get this done and up in time to go to the prison.  That\u2019s actually a huge sacrifice, because today is a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  The draft is tonight.  I hope my Broncos get a good first round […]<\/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-21503","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\/21503","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=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}