{"id":31839,"date":"2018-03-21T12:56:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31839"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:56:32","slug":"open-thread-3-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/open-thread-3-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/21\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here at the CatBox.&#160; Store to Door delivered my groceries, and I have put them away.&#160; It was warm and not raining last night, so the homeless in the street below partied noisily until after 3:00 AM.&#160; WWWendy is coming this evening to de-stink the TomCat, so I really need a nap this afternoon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 5:21).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-21-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=-lsSDHpFxrM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lance Wallnau Says Students Protesting For Gun Control Are As Dangerous As The Hitler Youth<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-lsSDHpFxrM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like most Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the opposite of authentic (Real) Christians, Wallnau wants Ammosexual Republican deplorables to grab an AR-15 and kill a Black, Latino, LGBT, Muslim or librul to earn the favor of Republican Supply-side Jesus. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/03\/21\/595457452\/authorities-in-austin-say-latest-package-bombs-sent-by-same-person\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>: <\/font>A man whom police had identified as their top suspect in a string of deadly bombings in the Austin, Texas, area this month killed himself early Wednesday by triggering an explosion in his car as officers approached the vehicle to make an arrest, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The dead suspect is Mark Anthony Conditt, a federal law enforcement source has confirmed to member station KUT.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are only two things I know about this horrid bombing spree. The bomber was Caucasian. He won&#8217;t be making any more bombs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/20\/politics\/illinois-house-primary-dan-lipinski\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Dan Lipinski, a centrist [<em>reactionary right<\/em>], anti-abortion rights Democrat, survived a progressive primary challenge from Marie Newman on Tuesday for his Chicago-area House seat, CNN projects.<\/p>\n<p>Lipinski was ahead of Newman 51% to 49% with 98% of precincts&#8217; tallies reported, according to Edison Research. That puts his lead at about 2,124 votes.<\/p>\n<p>His win comes despite an intense effort by pro-abortion rights and women&#8217;s groups &#8212; including Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and EMILY&#8217;s List &#8212; to purge the party of the anti-abortion lawmaker in a reliably Democratic district.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sad news. As much as I hate everything Lipinski stands for, I would hate it even more if Republicans hold their majority in the House because Lipinski loses. <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\/0321Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0321Cartoon\" 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=\"0321Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0321Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here at the CatBox.&#160; Store to Door delivered my groceries, and I have put them away.&#160; It was warm and not raining last night, so the homeless in the street below partied noisily until after 3:00 AM.&#160; WWWendy is coming this evening to de-stink the TomCat, so I really need a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/open-thread-3-21-2018\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839","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=31839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}