{"id":27228,"date":"2017-04-17T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27228"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:36:28","slug":"open-thread-4172017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/open-thread-4172017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/17\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While I was pretty successful at keeping my lungs clear yesterday, coughing exacerbated my side in the process and am in more pain.&#160; In years past, I have had issues with tree pollen, but this year is the pits.&#160; I&#8217;ll do what I can day by day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:40 (average 5:23).&#160; To do it,. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-17-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:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2017\/04\/16\/dan-rather-condemns-media-calling-trump-presidential-dropping-bombs-and-having-missile-strikes\/216042\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Dan Rather Condemns Media Calling Trump &quot;Presidential&quot; For &quot;Dropping Bombs&quot; And &quot;Having Missile Strikes&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/216042\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hudos to Rather! It did not take long before it became crystal clear that Trump&#8217;s war mongering was NOT necessary. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/10\/27\/1339526\/-Why-cats-aren-t-Republican\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (Classic: 10\/2014): <\/font>What you soon find out is that cats aren&#8217;t Republican. Here are 12 reasons why not:\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u20267. Cats don&#8217;t blame black and brown cats for their troubles.<\/p>\n<p>8. Cats know how to ration their resources.<\/p>\n<p>9. Fat cats are not at the top of the cat hierarchy, are not cat role models, and have more trouble surviving and thriving, not less.<\/p>\n<p>10. While Republicans blindly follow authority, it is said that getting Democrats to act in unison is like herding cats.<\/p>\n<p>11. Cats don&#8217;t foul their own nest.<\/p>\n<p>12. Cats are popular and well-liked on the Internet and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared the last six. Click through for the other six. Also, because we cats are purrrrfect, we <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/16\/us\/politics\/mike-conaway-russia-inquiry.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump does not know Mike Conaway.<\/p>\n<p>A Republican congressman from a long brush stroke of West Texas, Mr. Conaway recalled meeting with him at the White House with other House Republicans. And he has shaken hands with Mr. Trump, a \u201cstandard, 500-people-on-a-rope-line, shaken-hand kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t know me from third base,\u201d Mr. Conaway said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he has exchanged pleasantries with the president may not have mattered before, but it does now. Mr. Conaway is taking over the House Intelligence Committee\u2019s investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election. He is replacing Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican whose suspiciously cozy relationship with Mr. Trump derailed the inquiry before he was ultimately forced to step aside.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nunes\u2019s missteps have thrust Mr. Conaway, a low-profile, old-guard Republican, into the spotlight as the accidental heir to a potentially explosive investigation swirling around a president from his own party. He said he would dutifully pursue an extraordinary allegation that he appears to find dubious: that Mr. Trump\u2019s associates may have worked with Russian officials to disrupt the election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Strike 1: he&#8217;s a Republican. Strike 2: he&#8217;s a Republican. Strike 3: he&#8217;s a Republican. That&#8217;s enough, but what&#8217;s the rest of the dirt on him? Pat?&#160; <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\/04\/0417Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0417Cartoon\" 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=\"0417Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0417Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was pretty successful at keeping my lungs clear yesterday, coughing exacerbated my side in the process and am in more pain.&#160; In years past, I have had issues with tree pollen, but this year is the pits.&#160; I&#8217;ll do what I can day by day. 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