{"id":31619,"date":"2018-03-02T11:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31619"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:57:14","slug":"open-thread-3-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/open-thread-3-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/2\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s Monthly Report day, so I&#8217;m quite busy.&#160; I also solved a technical problem.&#160; Our Clustrmap disappeared from the site.&#160; I finally discovered that the problem was on my computer.&#160; I use AdGuard, and AdGuard blocked it as an ad.&#160; So, I set up an exception in AdGuard for PP and changed Clustrmap to a spinning globe.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:05 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-02-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=pi41z9JGtV8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SenatorJeffMerkley\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Merkley Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Merkley Presses Army Corps to Support Tribal Housing Along the Columbia River<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pi41z9JGtV8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to Jeff for standing up for Native American rights. Oregon leads the way. We <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NPwUnsUrHZc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>&quot;This Is How You Run A Banana Republic&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NPwUnsUrHZc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Painter was not even an Obama appointee. He worked in the GW Bush Regime. The best way to deal with a banana republic is to put banana Republican politicians out of work. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/its-time-for-paul-ryan-to-remove-devin-nunes\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a>: <\/font>At a time when insane is the new normal, our ability to be outraged is dulled amid daily incoming. But Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee\u2014led by their chairman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-nunes-memo-lands-with-a-dud\" target=\"_blank\">Trump lackey Devin Nunes<\/a>\u2014somehow hit a new low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/senate-intel-says-house-gop-leaked-warner-texts\" target=\"_blank\">with Thursday\u2019s revelation<\/a> that they leaked to Fox News texts from Senate Intelligence Committee Co-Chairman Mark Warner and a Russian businessman in a desperate attempt to discredit the senator. Those texts were then retweeted by our president, in a brushback pitch for Warner\u2019s insistence on investigating Russia\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election\u2014and potential collusion with the Trump campaign\u2014without fear or favor.<\/p>\n<p>This bombshell story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/senate-intelligence-nunes-leaks.html?smid=pl-share\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by The New York Times<\/a>, is not your garden variety Trump-related drama. It\u2019s worse. At a time when institutional checks and balances are needed more than ever, it underscored just how bad the blood is on Capitol Hill\u2014not just between the two parties, but between the House and the Senate itself.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Nunes\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/devin-nunes-the-dairy-farmer-overseeing-us-spies-and-the-russia-hack-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">a California dairy farmer who degraded himself by becoming a congressman<\/a>\u2014deserves disproportionate blame for this pathetic mess. His committee has turned the pursuit of truth into a partisan mockery, choosing to do the White House\u2019s bidding at the expense of honest inquiry and fact-based debate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The author concludes that Lyin&#8217; Ryan should remove Nunes. I fully agree, but I see far too big an orangish-brown smudge on Ryan&#8217;s nose for that to happen. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/kushner-close-to-obtaining-clearance-for-other-government-facility\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Just days after losing his top security clearance at the White House, Jared Kushner could soon be eligible to enter another high-security government facility, legal experts believe.<\/p>\n<p>According to Davis Logsdon, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, Kushner could be on the verge of obtaining \u201clong-term clearance\u201d at this separate facility, which, like the White House, is owned and operated by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Logsdon said that, although such a facility lacks some of the prestige of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Kushner would have access to government benefits there that far exceed what he has received as an unpaid adviser at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of his meals and housing would be fully paid for by the taxpayer,\u201d Logsdon said. \u201cAnd, if things play out the way some believe they will, Jared Kushner could be receiving these benefits for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, you pictured a prison, but wouldn&#8217;t the GOP Gitmo Gulag be a better place for him? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0302Cartoon\" 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=\"0302Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0302Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monthly Report day, so I&#8217;m quite busy.&#160; I also solved a technical problem.&#160; Our Clustrmap disappeared from the site.&#160; I finally discovered that the problem was on my computer.&#160; I use AdGuard, and AdGuard blocked it as an ad.&#160; So, I set up an exception in AdGuard for PP and changed Clustrmap to a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/open-thread-3-2-2018\/' 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-31619","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\/31619","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=31619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}