{"id":31750,"date":"2018-03-13T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31750"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:36:09","slug":"open-thread-3-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/13\/open-thread-3-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy day today here at the CatBox, and I&#8217;m still quite tired.&#160; I&#8217;m celebrating my 39th birthday for the 32nd time.&#160; Our server at Blue Host is intermittently offline.&#160; Please be patient.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll have to include it tomorrow, because the website has been down all day.<\/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=imUuI0M7XWI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>):<\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> In Memoria &#8211; A response to the NRA Ads<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/imUuI0M7XWI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They did not sing, but their voices were as clear as a bell. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VpEAyCPFB4g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The 6 Ways Millennials Are Changing America<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VpEAyCPFB4g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m a boomer, and I have no objection to any of the ideas Robert attributes to the millennials, with the caveat that the only way to get a viable third party is to elect people, who will change the current plurality rules system, under the two party system. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/betsy-devos-calls-60-minutes-a-waste-of-a-half-hour\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Furious about her treatment on the CBS news-magazine program on Sunday night, Betsy DeVos spoke to reporters on Monday, and called \u201c60 Minutes\u201d a \u201ctotal waste of a half hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never watched \u201860 Minutes\u2019 before, but I can tell you this, I will never watch it again,\u201d the Education Secretary said. \u201cI have better things to do with a half hour of my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling her interviewer, Lesley Stahl, a practitioner of \u201cgotcha journalism at its worst,\u201d DeVos said that it was \u201cvery unfair of her to ask me so many questions about education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe asked me one thing about schools, and then another, and another,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I had to answer every question she had about schools, I would have had to bone up on education for a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeVos said that she was \u201cfrustrated\u201d that Stahl neglected to ask her about any of her \u201creally good ideas\u201d for the nation\u2019s schools, such as \u201cpurchasing guns for teachers with money that is currently being wasted on books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Betsy Wetsy, as Trump must like to imagine her, is a waste\u2026 of skin! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0313Cartoon\" 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=\"0313Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0313Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day today here at the CatBox, and I&#8217;m still quite tired.&#160; I&#8217;m celebrating my 39th birthday for the 32nd time.&#160; Our server at Blue Host is intermittently offline.&#160; Please be patient. Jig Zone Puzzle: I&#8217;ll have to include it tomorrow, because the website has been down all day. 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