{"id":27237,"date":"2017-04-18T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27237"},"modified":"2017-04-18T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:45:08","slug":"open-thread-4182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/open-thread-4182017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Last night the pain in my side kept me up most of the night.&#160; This is my only article today, and I won&#8217;t be distributing links on Care2.&#160; Please3 expect no more tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:48 (average 4:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-18-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\/2\/6\/1629653\/-Daily-Kos-Elections-2016-presidential-results-for-congressional-and-legislative-districts\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Elections<\/a>: <\/font>Daily Kos Elections&#8217; 2016 presidential results for congressional and legislative districts<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0418State_LegislativeHexmap\" 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=\"0418State_LegislativeHexmap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0418State_LegislativeHexmap.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"558\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Therein lies the problems we&#8217;ve had long term and what we must correct. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/north-korea-offers-unconditional-surrender-after-mike-pence-angrily-squints-at-it\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a major foreign-policy coup for the Trump Administration, North Korea offered to unconditionally abandon its nuclear program on Monday, after Mike Pence spent several minutes angrily squinting at the nation from just across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Warning North Korea that the United States had jettisoned its policy of \u201cstrategic patience\u201d and that \u201call options were on the table,\u201d Pence fixed his steely glare on the isolated Communist nation and began furiously staring it down.<\/p>\n<p>After Pence spent between five and six minutes demonstrating U.S. resolve by squinting indignantly, the government in Pyongyang released a statement indicating that North Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions were a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Fat chance! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0DOTsl-Csic\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Is There an Actual Tape of Trump\u2019s Russia Collusion? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0DOTsl-Csic?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LORD! Let it be so and fully exposed.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0418Cartoon\" 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=\"0418Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0418Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the pain in my side kept me up most of the night.&#160; This is my only article today, and I won&#8217;t be distributing links on Care2.&#160; Please3 expect no more tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:48 (average 4:10).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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