{"id":27140,"date":"2017-04-13T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27140"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:34:13","slug":"open-thread-4132017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/open-thread-4132017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling a tiny bit less weird today, as the Prednisone is working it&#8217;s way out of my system.&#160; After jist a few minutes light research this morning, I returned to bed and slept.&#160; As soon as I publish this abbreviated Open Thread, I shall return to bed again.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-13-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=PCcw2sPlplY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Heartfelt Message to Our President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PCcw2sPlplY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have to disagree. Jackass is far too competent a term to describe the Fuhrer, who is a Resident NOT a President.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/putin-angrily-resigns-from-trumps-reelection-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a stunning rebuke of a former close political ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily resigned from Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 re\u00eblection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt resignation sent shockwaves through the Trump re\u00eblection organization, for which Putin had served as chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s sudden departure, which he announced during a joint appearance with the United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, appeared to catch the former ExxonMobil C.E.O. off guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the recent actions of Donald Trump, I feel that I can no longer effectively serve as his campaign chairman,\u201d Putin told reporters, while Tillerson looked on awkwardly.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Putin [R-RU] is the most competent SOB on Trump&#8217;s campaign staff!!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0413Cartoon\" 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=\"0413Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0413Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a tiny bit less weird today, as the Prednisone is working it&#8217;s way out of my system.&#160; After jist a few minutes light research this morning, I returned to bed and slept.&#160; As soon as I publish this abbreviated Open Thread, I shall return to bed again. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/open-thread-4132017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27140","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\/27140","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=27140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}