{"id":26971,"date":"2017-03-28T12:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26971"},"modified":"2017-03-28T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:06:52","slug":"open-thread-3282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/open-thread-3282017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is on the way now and will be here, before I can finish this.&#160; I slept very well last night for the first time in weeks, but I want to keep it light to avoid stressing myself, so this is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy is gone, and I took time out to write a letter to the Parole Board for one of my guys for whom I do prison volunteer work.&#160; I&#8217;ve known him for almost 30 years, and he is the one most deserving of release.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-03-28-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=Xk0Oan-wsyE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Which of Trump\u2019s Cronies Will Flip on Him First? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Xk0Oan-wsyE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And I called Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten the Tangerine Traitor, even before his inauguration. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/27\/us\/politics\/sanctuary-cities-jeff-sessions.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a><strong>: <\/strong><\/font>The Trump administration, signaling its intent to toughen enforcement of immigration laws across the country, threatened on Monday to withhold or revoke law enforcement funding from states, cities and localities that block the police or sheriffs from telling federal authorities about undocumented immigrants in their custody.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement at the White House, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said state and local governments seeking certain law enforcement grants would have to certify that they were complying with a law that bars any official from withholding information from the Department of Homeland Security about a person\u2019s immigration status. Those that are violating the policy could see such grants clawed back, he said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What Hooded Beauregard (R-KKK) is not telling us is that that Republicans already plan to strip federal funding from state and local programming anyway. <font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong><\/font>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/clean-energy-more-jobs-than-fossil-fuels-32f615915399\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Nationally, clean energy jobs outnumber fossil fuel jobs by more than 2.5 to 1, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docdroid.net\/G6njmYC\/sierra-club-clean-energy-jobs-report-final-1.pdf.html\" target=\"_blank\">new Sierra Club analysis<\/a> of Department of Energy jobs data. And when it comes to coal and gas \u2014 two sectors President Donald Trump has promised to bolster through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2017-03-26\/trump-said-to-issue-far-reaching-reversal-of-obama-climate-push\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming executive order<\/a> on energy regulation \u2014 clean energy jobs outnumber jobs dealing with those two fossil fuels by 5 to 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, clean energy jobs already overwhelm dirty fuels in nearly every state across America, and that growth is only going to continue as clean energy keeps getting more affordable and accessible by the day,\u201d Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said in a statement. \u201cThese facts make it clear that Donald Trump is attacking clean energy jobs purely in order to boost the profits of fossil fuel billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">By hamstringing clean energy to subsidize fossil fuel, the Peach Plutocrat is ensuring Americand will have fewer jobs and less energy independence. But it does serve the interests of Gazprom. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0328Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0328Cartoon\" 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=\"0328Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0328Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy is on the way now and will be here, before I can finish this.&#160; I slept very well last night for the first time in weeks, but I want to keep it light to avoid stressing myself, so this is today&#8217;s only article. 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