{"id":31996,"date":"2018-03-31T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31996"},"modified":"2018-03-31T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T20:18:29","slug":"open-thread-3-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/31\/open-thread-3-31-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/31\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Another month is coming to an end, here in the CatBox.&#160; As if I wasn&#8217;t already busy enough, tomorrow is April Republicans Day, Easter Sunday, and WWWendy&#8217;s de-stink the sweaty TomCat day, all rolled into one.&#160; Therefore, both the new poll and the Monthly Report will be delayed a day, to Monday and Tuesday respectively.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:21 (average 5:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?&#160; I hope they have <em>dawg<\/em> burgers and <em>dawg<\/em> dogs.<\/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=mE_JyGOq9ps\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>High Costs For Mocking Parkland Student Survivors<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mE_JyGOq9ps?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Updating yesterday&#8217;s article, kudos to the thirteen companies. Whether or not, <em>Faux Noise<\/em> fires her, and she becomes the next White House Communications Director, <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/03\/31\/ingraham-takes-leave-from-show-after-mocking-shooting-survivor\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Post<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/03\/29\/fox-news-host-backtracks-after-dissing-florida-shooting-survivor\/\" target=\"_blank\">mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40162-last-blue-moon-2018-rises-tonight.html\" target=\"_blank\">Space<\/a>: <\/font>A full Blue Moon rises into the evening sky tonight (March 31). This will be the second and final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15455-blue-moon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Moon<\/a> of 2018, so don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>Despite the name, the &quot;Blue Moon&quot; won&#8217;t actually be blue. In fact, it will look the same as any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16830-full-moon-calendar.html\" target=\"_blank\">full moon<\/a>. According to the current definition, the term refers to the second full moon in a given calendar month. The traditional definition of a Blue Moon was reserved for the third full moon in a season that has four full moons, which happens in years that have 13 full moons instead of the usual 12.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qoi3TH59ZEs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Talk about D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/scientists-baffled-by-mcconnell-and-ryans-ability-to-stand-upright-without-spines\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling it a \u201cmedical mystery of the first order,\u201d scientists are baffled by the ability of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to stand upright without the benefit of spines.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who have been studying the skeletal structures of both Republicans for months, believe that their ability to stand, walk, and even break into a brisk trot when confronted by reporters\u2019 questions is \u201cvirtually inexplicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they can do these things without the aid of spines makes McConnell and Ryan anomalies in the animal kingdom,\u201d said Dr. Davis Logsdon. \u201cAccording to everything medical science teaches us, their bodies should be collapsing to the ground in two heaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy!! I know God wouldn&#8217;t do this, but you sure have proven the existence of the devil!! <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\/0331Cartoon.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another month is coming to an end, here in the CatBox.&#160; As if I wasn&#8217;t already busy enough, tomorrow is April Republicans Day, Easter Sunday, and WWWendy&#8217;s de-stink the sweaty TomCat day, all rolled into one.&#160; Therefore, both the new poll and the Monthly Report will be delayed a day, to Monday and Tuesday respectively. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/31\/open-thread-3-31-2018\/' 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-31996","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\/31996","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=31996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}