{"id":31675,"date":"2018-03-08T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31675"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:03:30","slug":"open-thread-3-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/08\/open-thread-3-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/8\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This hectic week continues here at the CatBox.&#160; Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread from me tomorrow.&#160; I have my routine, semi-annual fasting labs for Megan, my PCP, tomorrow morning.&#160; Labs are a pain, but fasting labs are the pits.&#160; I already made a turkey sandwich to take, so I can drown my kitty sorrows in bird, as soon as the labs are done.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:10 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-08-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=gsJmgZ6l70k\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Senator Elizabeth Warren: I Want To See A Democratic Party That Picks Fights | All In<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gsJmgZ6l70k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I love and agree with Liz, but I want to clarify one thing she did not explain. What some Democratic Senators voted to do is to open debate on the bill, not pass it. That gives them the opportunity to fight to remove those elements we don&#8217;t want and include the ones we do. In my opinion, they were foolish, because they based that vote on the hope that Republicans will negotiate in good faith. That will not happen, but some Senators are stuck in the mindset of collegiality. It will take another supermajority vote (60) to close debate, before it can be passed by the Senate. Any Democrats that vote for it then should be exposed, berated and primaried, but let&#8217;s not knee-jerk ahead of time foolishly. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8U6NKxsqU2M\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Guess Who will leave the Trump White House next<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8U6NKxsqU2M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He didn&#8217;t mention that replacements hired are increasingly more incompetent, because competent people don&#8217;t want jobs, where the boss does not return the loyalty he demands, where the jobs may be permanent black marks on their resumes, and where the jobs may cost them millions in legal fees. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/03\/trump-vetoed-miss-universe-contestants-ethnic-dark-skinned-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>[E]arlier this year, a report emerged claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/02\/trump-rigged-miss-universe-pageants-favor-countries-business-interests-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump would personally rig the Miss Universe pageant<\/a> to benefit contestants from countries where he had business relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/03\/russian-connection-what-happened-moscow-inside-story-trump-obsession-putin-david-corn-michael-isikoff\/#b\" target=\"_blank\">a new report published by Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones\u2019 David Corn claims<\/a> that Trump would also veto certain contestants if he deemed them to be \u201ctoo ethnic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, one former Miss Universe staffer tells them that Trump would personally \u201cmake changes\u201d to the list of finalists \u201cif there were too many women of color\u201d on it.<\/p>\n<p>Another former Miss Universe staffer similarly tells them that Trump would weed out candidates who were too \u201cdark-skinned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe often thought a woman was too ethnic or too dark-skinned,\u201d the staffer explains. \u201cHe had a particular type of woman he thought was a winner. Others were too ethnic. He liked a type. There was Olivia Culpo, Dayanara Torres [the 1993 winner], and, no surprise, East European women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s the Fuhrer! Today, that bigotry is the basis for Republican immigration policy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0308Cartoon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0308Cartoon2\" 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=\"0308Cartoon2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0308Cartoon2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0308Cartoon\" 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=\"0308Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0308Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hectic week continues here at the CatBox.&#160; Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread from me tomorrow.&#160; I have my routine, semi-annual fasting labs for Megan, my PCP, tomorrow morning.&#160; Labs are a pain, but fasting labs are the pits.&#160; I already made a turkey sandwich to take, so <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/08\/open-thread-3-8-2018\/' 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-31675","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\/31675","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=31675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}