{"id":31762,"date":"2018-03-14T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31762"},"modified":"2018-03-14T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:24:44","slug":"open-thread-3-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/open-thread-3-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/14\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; The site is working properly again.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.&#160; WWWendy is coming this evening, and I need to catch up on sleep.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday&#8217;s took me 4:07 (average 5:26).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Today&#8217;s took me 4:47 (average 6:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-14-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you so?<\/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=O4nrFkedvt4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Democrat Conor Lamb Is The Apparent Winner In PA Election<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/O4nrFkedvt4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQW9NLsxOpA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Ex Tillerson<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dQW9NLsxOpA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think he has a point. Was criticizing Trump&#8217;s owner what got Tillerson fired? If Trump replaced staff with <em>dawgs<\/em>, they&#8217;d be too toxic to eat. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jF7_kn2Vk8E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Who Receives More Government Help, Stanford or UC Berkeley?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jF7_kn2Vk8E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Interesting. I never realized that there is an imbalance in government support for rich schools. I&#8217;m not sure about the best solution. Ideas? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/house-republicans-say-japanese-did-not-meddle-in-pearl-harbor\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Reaching the opposite conclusion of many of their committee peers, Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that the Japanese did not meddle in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter an exhaustive investigation, we have come to the conclusion that there was no attempt by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service to influence the outcome of Pearl Harbor,\u201d Rep. Mike Conaway, a Republican of Texas, said. \u201cAny suggestion to the contrary amounts to nothing more or less than a witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conaway said that while there were Japanese bombers in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, their role in the attack there has been \u201cblown out of proportion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! The Japan<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">ese were as innocent as Trump and far more humane than he is. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0314Cartoon\" 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=\"0314Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0314Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u03c0 R Pizza!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; The site is working properly again.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.&#160; WWWendy is coming this evening, and I need to catch up on sleep. Jig Zone Puzzles: Yesterday&#8217;s took me 4:07 (average 5:26).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; Today&#8217;s took me 4:47 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/open-thread-3-14-2018\/' 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-31762","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\/31762","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=31762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}