{"id":27341,"date":"2017-04-28T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27341"},"modified":"2017-04-28T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:53:41","slug":"open-thread-4282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/open-thread-4282017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pain is still high.&#160; On the plus side, I got to watch my Broncos draft an OT in the first round last night.&#160; No surprises there.&#160; It&#8217;s what they needed most.&#160; Now if only Democrats would do that!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:47 (average 4:16).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-28-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">click here<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HlNJKCoqvbc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> (<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">What Would Trump\u2019s Immigrant Ancestors Say? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HlNJKCoqvbc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For the heinous crime of deporting Fredrick Trump to America and fouling our nation with his vile spawn, Bavaria deserves at least a nuclear strike, or even worse, government by Republicans. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/4\/26\/1656465\/-Chomsky-doubles-down-on-statement-that-the-Republican-Party-is-most-dangerous-group-in-human-history\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">This past May, while candidate Donald Trump was running over Republicans and we all were relatively unaware of the impending nightmare that would be November 8, 2016, Noam Chomsky was interviewed on Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman. He made this statement:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4FC7PsvUjo8?rel=0?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He&#8217;s right. But I&#8217;ve said that Republicans are mose dangerous for years and referred to the Reich as Al Dubya, before Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. Here&#8217;s <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/we-got-some-splaining-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">one example from 2010<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/betsy-devos-says-media-shouldnt-emphasize-first-hundred-days-because-its-so-hard-to-count-to-a-hundred\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized the media on Friday for placing so much emphasis on Donald Trump\u2019s first hundred days, because \u201cit\u2019s so darn hard to count to a hundred.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">\u201cI\u2019m watching the news and they\u2019re going on about a hundred days this and a hundred days that, and all I want to say is, \u2018Who the heck can count all the way to a hundred?\u2019 \u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re acting like we\u2019re a bunch of math geniuses.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">DeVos added that, if the media wanted to establish a benchmark for Trump\u2019s achievement, \u201cthey should have picked a number of days that people can actually count to, like five or ten.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Considering what DeVos is doing to education, that will be true all too soon! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0428Cartoon\" 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=\"0428Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0428Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ending that war took far too long.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pain is still high.&#160; On the plus side, I got to watch my Broncos draft an OT in the first round last night.&#160; No surprises there.&#160; It&#8217;s what they needed most.&#160; Now if only Democrats would do that! 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