{"id":31669,"date":"2018-03-07T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31669"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:17:44","slug":"open-thread-3-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/open-thread-3-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m about to leave for my meeting in a few minutes, so I&#8217;ll have to finish this when I return.&#160; WWWendy will be here this evening.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m back.&#160; My pillow calls!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:59 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-07-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=O2uTpONBuiI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Hallelujah Parody &#8211; Letter to Wayne LaPierre, NRA<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/O2uTpONBuiI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Are they spot on, or what? Support them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=Vr-oO5IALjtBpCMauO5MFWYH1Dd8MTUyMDUyMTI2OUAxNTIwNDM0ODY5&amp;v=O2uTpONBuiI&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fparodyproject.com%2Fsupportus&amp;event=video_description\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/markets\/2018\/03\/07\/market-turmoil-dow-futures-drop-more-than-300-points-after-cohn-resigns\/402454002\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Wednesday on the back of news that Gary Cohn, the chief economic adviser to President Donald Trump, resigned from his post.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=.DJI\" target=\"_blank\">Dow Jones industrial average<\/a> opened more than 300 points lower. It was trading down about 160 points at 9:40 a.m. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=.SPX\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P 500<\/a> declined 0.7%, with energy as the worst-performing sector. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=.IXIC\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq composite<\/a> pulled back 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Cohn, the free trade advocate and former president at Goldman Sachs, chose to step down from his position after Trump announced that he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Cohn&#8217;s departure date is expected to come in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The rat is deserting the sinking ship.<strong> RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/03\/07\/primaries-behind-them-cruz-orourke-ready-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>For much of the past year, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz did not acknowledge Beto O&#8217;Rourke\u2019s name \u2014 or even, for a while, the fact that he had a Democratic opponent for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>That abruptly changed Tuesday evening, when Cruz convened several state reporters for a conference call in the final hours before polls closed in the state\u2019s primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight\u2019s election marks the beginning of the general election,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cIn November, the voters of Texas will have a clear and stark choice for the United States Senate. Congressman O\u2019Rourke is a left-wing, liberal Democrat \u2014 he is running like Bernie Sanders across the state, and the voters of Texas will have a decision of what policies and values reflect their own values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I trust the rest of the staff will agree with me in endorsing Beto over Ted &quot;Uranus Inspector&quot; Cruz. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0307Cartoon\" 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=\"0307Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0307Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to leave for my meeting in a few minutes, so I&#8217;ll have to finish this when I return.&#160; WWWendy will be here this evening. I&#8217;m back.&#160; My pillow calls! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:59 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Parody Project <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/open-thread-3-7-2018\/' 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-31669","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\/31669","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=31669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}