{"id":27213,"date":"2017-04-16T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27213"},"modified":"2017-04-16T07:37:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T14:37:35","slug":"open-thread-4162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/16\/open-thread-4162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a holiday and a Wendy day.&#160; I&#8217;m in a BIG hurry!!<\/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 4:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-16-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\/2017\/4\/14\/1653217\/-Partial-evacuation-underway-in-North-Korean-capital\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: \\<\/font>Kim Jong Un is reported to have ordered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20170414000689\" target=\"_blank\">evacuation of over 600,000 people<\/a> from North Korea\u2019s capital city, Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Experts note that the evacuation will most likely be conducted due to extremely strained tensions in relations with the US.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>North Korea has an extensive system of shelters, but it\u2019s not clear where the evacuated people are being sent.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even though the Korean missile was a dud, I still do not like the sound of this at all. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RvfzFv3c6Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Easter Message from Sean Spicer<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_RvfzFv3c6Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can&#8217;t believe that really isn&#8217;t Shitty Spice. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/tax-day-protests-trump-returns.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>n a Tax Day groundswell of calls for President Trump to release his tax returns, hundreds of protesters marched to Mr. Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago getaway on Saturday in Florida, and thousands more gathered in Washington and other cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On a waterfront patch facing Mr. Trump\u2019s resort, where he is spending the weekend, demonstrators chanted \u201cPay! Your! Taxes!\u201d and held signs calling him \u201cChicken in Chief\u201d \u2014 the chicken being a symbol at the rallies of how Mr. Trump was \u201cscared\u201d to follow decades of presidential practice in releasing the returns.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here the march was about four blocks long and orderly when it passed under my window. Kudos! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0416Cartoon\" 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=\"0416Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0416Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Easter Kitty KNOWS!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a holiday and a Wendy day.&#160; I&#8217;m in a BIG hurry!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From Daily Kos: \\Kim Jong Un is reported to have ordered the evacuation of over 600,000 people from North Korea\u2019s capital city, Pyongyang. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/16\/open-thread-4162017\/' 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-27213","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\/27213","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=27213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}