{"id":31721,"date":"2018-03-10T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T21:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31721"},"modified":"2018-03-10T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T21:43:07","slug":"open-thread-3-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/10\/open-thread-3-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I don&#8217;t have my test results, but they didn&#8217;t strike oil.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a warm day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I have my window wide open and my door open for cross ventilation.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling quite tired after my busy week, and I had to do some paperwork and some computer maintenance this morning.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and I need to get rest, because we&#8217;ll be busy.\u00a0 Nevertheless, I&#8217;m back in the saddle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 4:36).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 Hoe did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xDfzLfs9Cqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Illinois needs Marie Newman<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xDfzLfs9Cqc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I trust that the staff will agree that Politics Plus proudly endorses Marie Newman for Congress. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-pol-parade-trump-20180309-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/span>Pressed by President Trump, the Pentagon is proposing to stage a military parade in November with veterans in historic uniforms and warplanes, but no tanks \u2014 a scaled-down version of the grand display of military might the president envisioned, according to a memo released by the Pentagon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans in &#8220;period uniforms&#8221; from past wars would march from the White House to the Capitol on Nov. 11 \u2014 Veterans Day \u2014 joined by &#8220;wheeled vehicles only, no tanks,&#8221; to &#8220;minimize damage to local infrastructure,&#8221; the planning document says.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked the Defense Department to plan a parade of the U.S. armed forces to celebrate military strength&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If the parade consists of two recruits on KP, that&#8217;s far more parade than Trump deserves. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/09\/world\/europe\/horowitz-europe-populism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>Only months ago, Mr. Bannon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/18\/us\/politics\/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced out of the White House<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/09\/us\/politics\/steve-bannon-breitbart-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a>, the alt-right news empire he helped make into a political force, for the sharp criticisms of President Trump\u2019s children attributed to him in a book. \u201cHe\u2019s lost his mind,\u201d Mr. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-bannon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But now Mr. Bannon, the architect of Mr. Trump\u2019s populist campaign message and the president\u2019s former chief strategist, has returned with an international mission.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he is set to headline the annual conference of France\u2019s far-right National Front in the northern city of Lille, where he will be introduced by its leader, Marine Le Pen. People with knowledge of Mr. Bannon\u2019s itinerary suggested that he might meet later in the weekend with the Hungarian prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/10\/world\/europe\/hungary-orban-democracy-far-right.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viktor Orban,<\/a> but Mr. Bannon declined to say whether or not he would, only saying that he admired Mr. Orban as a \u201chero\u201d and \u201cthe most significant guy on the scene right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Zurich, Mr. Bannon says, he had a \u201cfascinating\u201d meeting on Tuesday with leaders of Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative for Germany party.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Watch out Europe! <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bullshit Alert!!<\/span><\/strong> <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/kim-jong-un-reveals-he-is-just-using-trump-to-meet-stormy-daniels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Kim Jong Un has revealed to close associates that he has offered to meet Donald J. Trump only as a means of achieving his real goal: meeting the former adult-film star Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>A confidant of the North Korean dictator said that Kim revealed his true intentions behind the Trump invitation at a high-level government meeting on Thursday night. \u201cKim said that he was a big fan of Stormy\u2019s, and he decided that meeting with Trump would be a \u2018necessary evil\u2019 if he wanted a chance to meet her,\u201d the confidant said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the confidant, Kim first attempted to arrange a meeting with Daniels through his close friend, the former N.B.A. player Dennis Rodman, \u201cbut, when Dennis said that he didn\u2019t know Stormy, Kim was, like, \u2018Oh, well, I guess I\u2019ll have to go through Trump, then.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy, I have no doubt that Stormy would hook-up with Kim. Since she did Trump, she&#8217;ll do anyone. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0310Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0310Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0310Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0310Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Like other sheeple, this Republican is too stupid to realize the truck is approaching at high speed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have my test results, but they didn&#8217;t strike oil.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a warm day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I have my window wide open and my door open for cross ventilation.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling quite tired after my busy week, and I had to do some paperwork and some computer maintenance this morning.\u00a0 Tomorrow is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/10\/open-thread-3-10-2018\/' 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-31721","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\/31721","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=31721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}