{"id":26533,"date":"2017-03-01T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26533"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:44:57","slug":"open-thread-312017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/open-thread-312017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/1\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries, and Wendy is coming this evening, so I&#8217;m quite busy.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, because it&#8217;s my monthly Physical Terrorism with Courtney, who loves to be called Lady Torquemada.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">T^oday&#8217;s took me 2:57 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-03-01-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-e8pwXWSL7s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Let\u2019s Be Honest: Trump\u2019s Banning Muslims and Purging Hispanics<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-e8pwXWSL7s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans have been the party of bigotry, hate, and racism for decades. But the hate-filled hairball and jus Nazi sidekick have taken it to a level that makes the KKK seem moderate by comparison. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-bids-ben-carson-farewell-until-next-black-history-month\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>On the final day of Black History Month, Donald J. Trump thanked Ben Carson for participating in a handful of photo opportunities during the month, and bade him farewell until Black History Month next year.<\/p>\n<p>Saying goodbye to Carson at the White House, Trump praised him for \u201csitting or standing next to me\u201d at various times over the past four weeks.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy sure has that right. It&#8217;s the only time of year the racist Resident (NOT President) and the token Uncle Tom feel the need to associate.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/white-house-barring-reporters-from-briefings.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Nicholas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A ruling<\/a> issued on Monday by a federal judge in Manhattan, in a case brought by a freelance journalist without a lawyer, may interest the White House. The judge said that the New York Police Department may have violated the First Amendment by revoking the press credentials of the journalist, Jason B. Nicholas.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was preliminary, and the Police Department said it had legitimate reasons for its actions. But Judge J. Paul Oetken\u2019s decision was timely, following as it did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/24\/us\/politics\/white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html\" target=\"_blank\">the exclusion of several news organizations<\/a> from a Friday briefing at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been held impermissible,\u201d Judge Oetken wrote, \u201cto exclude a single television news network from live coverage of mayoral candidates\u2019 headquarters and to withhold White House press passes in a content-based or arbitrary fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday\u2019s developments at the White House crossed that legal line, said Jameel Jaffer, the director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don&#8217;t just sit there, media! sue the damn Fuhrer! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cartoon<\/font><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0301Cartoon\" 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=\"0301Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0301Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries, and Wendy is coming this evening, so I&#8217;m quite busy.&#160; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, because it&#8217;s my monthly Physical Terrorism with Courtney, who loves to be called Lady Torquemada. 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