{"id":31981,"date":"2018-03-30T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31981"},"modified":"2018-03-30T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:25:12","slug":"open-thread-3-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/open-thread-3-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running a little late, because something or some idiot set off the fire alarm system, and I had to put on George and my outside clothes to prepare to evacuate.&#160; The alarm went off less than a minute, after the fire department arrived. It was small cooking fire.&#160; I&#8217;m still sweating from the rushed exertion.&#160; Yesterday&#8217;s meeting went exactly as I anticipated.&#160; It was for the benefit of those, who are too lazy to read the FAQs CCC distributed over a week ago.&#160; However, the weather was nice, so I took the opportunity to make a bank run, so I can pay WWWendy on Sunday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 5:04).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-30-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=m3F07R2-zW4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why the Stormy Daniels and Summer Zervos lawsuits matter<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/m3F07R2-zW4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I would love see Drumpfenfarten deposed and charged with the resultant perjury. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FsFXOi0s6eo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Tucker Carlson parrots YouTube&#8217;s most extreme misogynists<\/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\/FsFXOi0s6eo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! I&#8217;m an oppressed minority, am I? Well, I&#8217;m just too busy to commit suicide this week.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/>&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/03\/29\/kentucky-house-committee-approves-surprise-pension-reform-bill\/470723002\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Courier-Journal<\/a>: <\/font>In just a matter of hours Thursday Republicans in control of the Kentucky House and Senate unveiled &#8211; and zipped through to final passage &#8211; a new version of a controversial pension reform bill.<\/p>\n<p>As about 200 stunned and furious teachers and other opponents chanted objections like &quot;Shame on you&quot; from outside the chambers, the House first passed the bill 49-46, and a few hours later the Senate passed it 22-15.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now goes to the desk of Gov. 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