{"id":31828,"date":"2018-03-20T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31828"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:26:14","slug":"open-thread-3-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/open-thread-3-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/20\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Happy Spring.\u00a0 The social worker left, and I&#8217;ll have the results in a few days.\u00a0 It was muggy last night, and I didn&#8217;t sleep well, so please pardon my brevity.<\/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 3:15 (average 5:00): To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How 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=e9ANVNCHBdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Tyler: Trump Will &#8216;Fire Mueller Before He Can Get To Any Tangential Issues&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/e9ANVNCHBdQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m following-up on yesterday&#8217;s article. This is exactly what I said. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/maryland-authorities-investigating-shooting-at-high-school\/2018\/03\/20\/4deeadee-2c39-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.fa2a9dd36d07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/span>Three students including a gunman were injured after a shooting in a hallway at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland Tuesday morning, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The three are said to be in critical condition. The shooter was a student at the school, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>St. Mary\u2019s County Sheriff Timothy K. Cameron said the shooting occurred shortly after classes began around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron said a male and female student were shot by a gunman, who was also a student at the school. He said the Sheriff\u2019s Office is not identifying the gunman at this point.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The shooter is now dead.\u00a0 It&#8217;s way to early to say more, except that this is what will keep happening if the Ammosexual NRA and their Republican lackeys keep preventing common sense gun control. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/muckraker\/senate-intel-cybersecurity-draft-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPM<\/a>: <\/span>The Senate Intelligence Committee, as part of its ongoing Russia probe, released a draft summary on Tuesday of its recommendations to address to improve election cybersecurity ahead of the 2018 midterms.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click through to read them. I agree with all but #1, and they are desperately needed. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0320Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0320Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"0320Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Spring.\u00a0 The social worker left, and I&#8217;ll have the results in a few days.\u00a0 It was muggy last night, and I didn&#8217;t sleep well, so please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 5:00): To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Tyler: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/open-thread-3-20-2018\/' 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-31828","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\/31828","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=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}