{"id":32025,"date":"2018-04-03T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32025"},"modified":"2018-04-03T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:04:54","slug":"open-thread-4-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/open-thread-4-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; The last documents I needed to prepare my taxes came in today, so I need to get ready to do them on Sunday.&#160; It&#8217;s Monthly Report day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:49 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-03-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=bgbP8LvzJZY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Con Mannity Show<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bgbP8LvzJZY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Who would have imagined that the Reich on the left could be a comedian, while also being right! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uue5CTSV60Q\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Right-wing debunking the right-wing: Planned Parenthood edition<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uue5CTSV60Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans normally keep repeating the same lies over and over again until apathetic voters accept them as true. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/02\/climate\/epa-pruitt-pipeline-apartment.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company\u2019s pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt, was renting a condominium linked to the energy company\u2019s powerful Washington lobbying firm.<\/p>\n<p>Both the E.P.A. and the lobbying firm dispute that there was any connection between the agency\u2019s action and the condo rental, for which Mr. Pruitt was paying $50 a night.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For Republicans, government is a for-profit investment. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fired-trump-staffers-hold-reunion\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Former White House staffers who were fired by Donald Trump held their first reunion on Easter Sunday in Houston\u2019s Astrodome.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which drew a crowd of approximately sixty-five thousand people, had been organized by the recently axed Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe turnout is just outstanding,\u201d a beaming Tillerson told reporters. \u201cOf course, most of these people didn\u2019t have anything else to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m calling BS on you, Andy! The Astrodome isn&#8217;t big enough. <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; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0403Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And he is what Republicans call too moderate.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; The last documents I needed to prepare my taxes came in today, so I need to get ready to do them on Sunday.&#160; It&#8217;s Monthly Report day. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:49 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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