{"id":31928,"date":"2018-03-27T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31928"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T19:56:07","slug":"open-thread-3-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/open-thread-3-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another muggy day here at the CatBox.&#160; Tomorrow I may have no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&#160; It&#8217;s a grocery delivery day, and WWWendy has a baby shower, so she&#8217;s coming to de-stink the sticky TomCat in the morning, instead of tomorrow evening.&#160; That will thoroughly flummox my writing schedule, and I&#8217;ll need to see how it goes, before I know what I can do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:25 (average 6:15).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-27-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=tUqDVKwWSZw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>WHAT DOES THE GUN SAY (parody of) What Does the Fox Say<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tUqDVKwWSZw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Apologies for letting this slip by a few days ago. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rmxim5ozSKU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Full Frontal At The March For Our Lives<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Rmxim5ozSKU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sam feels it&#8217;s important to publicize her support. So should we. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/26\/world\/europe\/trump-russia-expel-european-union.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian officials on Monday, joining a coordinated campaign by two dozen countries to retaliate for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/07\/world\/europe\/russia-spy-nerve-agent.html\" target=\"_blank\">poisoning<\/a> of a former Russian spy in Britain in a Cold War-style escalation that again highlighted the disparity between the president\u2019s words and actions.<\/p>\n<p>The mass expulsion of Russian personnel stationed in the United States was the largest ever, eclipsing even the darkest days of the global showdown with the Soviet Union. But Mr. Trump avoided any public condemnation of Russia\u2019s role in the attack just days after phoning President Vladimir V. Putin to congratulate him on a re-election widely considered a sham.<\/p>\n<p>In approving the expulsions and ordering the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle, Mr. Trump followed the lead of Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, who rallied a multinational coalition to respond to the poisoning. With London pressing for action, Mr. Trump called foreign counterparts to see if they would join, too. Aides said he encouraged them to take part, but he also knew that failure to go along would have left the United States isolated.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the United States, at least 22 other nations backed Britain by expelling about 57 more Russian diplomats and intelligence officers as of Monday evening, including France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Poland and Canada. Mrs. May originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/14\/world\/europe\/uk-russia-spy-punitive-measures.html\" target=\"_blank\">expelled 23 Russians<\/a> shortly after British authorities determined that Moscow was likely responsible for the nerve agent that left Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian spy, and his daughter in a coma.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m surprised Trump did this. He should have done far more. Why did he do it? Maybe he and Putin are putting on a show to try to hide their partnership. Or maybe Stormy threatened to pank Donnie Piddle on his widdle Twump wump. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0327Cartoon.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another muggy day here at the CatBox.&#160; Tomorrow I may have no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&#160; It&#8217;s a grocery delivery day, and WWWendy has a baby shower, so she&#8217;s coming to de-stink the sticky TomCat in the morning, instead of tomorrow evening.&#160; That will thoroughly flummox my writing schedule, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/open-thread-3-27-2018\/' 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-31928","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\/31928","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=31928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}