{"id":31848,"date":"2018-03-22T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31848"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:57:49","slug":"open-thread-3-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/22\/open-thread-3-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another muggy day here at the CatBox.&#160; I keep my desk locked, because that&#8217;s where I store my wallet, credit card and cash.&#160; I often have several hundred dollars, so I can pay WWWendy for several weeks without having to go to the bank.&#160; The lock on the desk is getting almost impossible to open, and it&#8217;s that way with both keys so the lock needs repair.&#160; I have a locksmith coming ion the next hour to repair it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s tool me 5:08 (average 7:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-22-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=-rrgkHAgc3E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How To Overcome Your Fighting Instincts<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-rrgkHAgc3E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump: he is what he grabs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/world-water-day-2018-facts-quotes-share-raise-awareness-2665078\" target=\"_blank\">IB Times<\/a>: <\/font>Thursday is World Water Day, an annual celebration initiated by the United Nations to raise awareness about water scarcity and how to preserve and use it safely. Even though water covers almost three-fourths of the Earth\u2019s surface, there are many regions that are severely deprived of it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026This year, World Water Day turns 25 and to celebrate the occasion, here are some facts and quotes about water, courtesy of Water.org.<\/p>\n<p>Facts:<\/p>\n<p>1. Today, 844 million people are living without access to safe water, while 2.3 billion people are living without access to improved sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>2. Each year, 1 million people are killed by water, sanitation and hygiene-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>3. Ninety-five percent of the water used daily is wasted.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared three facts. Click through for the other seven. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/john-brennan-trump-putin.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>John O. Brennan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said Wednesday that he thought Russia may have some kind of compromising information on President Trump, setting off furious speculation about whether the former spy chief was basing that assertion on inside information.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on Wednesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/former-cia-director-says-russia-could-have-something-on-trump-1191147075556?playlist=associated&amp;v=a\" target=\"_blank\">on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d<\/a> Mr. Brennan, who served as C.I.A. director from 2013 to 2017, speculated that Russians \u201cmay have something on him personally\u201d when he was asked if he thought Mr. Trump was afraid of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russians, I think, have had long experience with Mr. Trump, and may have things that they could expose,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Brennan was running the C.I.A. when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/25\/us\/politics\/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html\" target=\"_blank\">salacious dossier<\/a> surfaced in 2016 that claimed the Russians had compromising information on Mr. Trump. If there were any current or former American officials who might know if there was truth behind the allegations in the dossier, Mr. Brennan would most likely be one of them. And his comments came the day after a phone call Mr. Trump made to Mr. Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-putin-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\">congratulating him<\/a> for winning an election raised new questions about the president\u2019s relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s exactly what I said yesterday. <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\/0322Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0322Cartoon\" 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=\"0322Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0322Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another muggy day here at the CatBox.&#160; I keep my desk locked, because that&#8217;s where I store my wallet, credit card and cash.&#160; I often have several hundred dollars, so I can pay WWWendy for several weeks without having to go to the bank.&#160; The lock on the desk is getting almost impossible to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/22\/open-thread-3-22-2018\/' 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-31848","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\/31848","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=31848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}