{"id":31707,"date":"2018-03-09T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31707"},"modified":"2018-03-09T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:02:45","slug":"open-thread-3-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/open-thread-3-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/9\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m off for my fasting labs soon and am rushing to write as much as I can get done before I leave.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Back and pooped.&#160; I was in the Lift Bus for 2 hours.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:06 (average 7:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-09-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=aaHoR48ESRk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Chris Hayes On Trump-Russia Allegations: Why Is Everyone Acting Guilty?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aaHoR48ESRk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Seeing Chris in a reversed role is interesting. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Civkenar7rg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>International Women&#8217;s Day Observed Around The Globe<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Civkenar7rg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to women everywhere! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed, idiosyncratic leaders who have traded threats of war.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said that Mr. Trump had accepted the invitation, and Chung Eui-yong, a South Korean official who conveyed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/08\/world\/asia\/transcript-south-korea-nuclear-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters that the president would meet with Mr. Kim within two months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible,\u201d Mr. Chung said at the White House on Thursday evening after meeting the president. Mr. Trump, he said, agreed to \u201cmeet Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">First, I hope they aren&#8217;t left alone together, because Donnie Tiny Hands, etc. would be intellectually outclassed. Also, I think the only reason Trump accepted the meeting is that Kim must have given him grabbing privileges on Kim&#8217;s Army of Beauties. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0309Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0309Cartoon\" 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=\"0309Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0309Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich would love to include blacks, Latinos, Muslims, LGBT, and Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off for my fasting labs soon and am rushing to write as much as I can get done before I leave. Back and pooped.&#160; I was in the Lift Bus for 2 hours. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:06 (average 7:10).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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