{"id":32065,"date":"2018-04-08T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32065"},"modified":"2018-04-08T08:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:10:53","slug":"open-thread-4-8-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/08\/open-thread-4-8-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/8\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is both WWWendy day and Infernal Revenue Day.&#160; Please pass the Vaseline.&#160; Therefore, this is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-08-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=1iCm8tYX-Vw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Baltic States Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1iCm8tYX-Vw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I still think Baldwin does Trump better than Trump. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xKoAeaFcP-Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>5 Points to Counter the NRA<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xKoAeaFcP-Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Ammosexuals won&#8217;t listen to the Reich on the left, but we care what everybody else thinks. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/07\/climate\/scott-pruitt-epa-rollbacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>As ethical questions threaten the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, President Trump has defended him with a persuasive conservative argument: Mr. Pruitt is doing a great job at what he was hired to do, roll back regulations.<\/p>\n<p>But legal experts and White House officials say that in Mr. Pruitt\u2019s haste to undo government rules and in his eagerness to hold high-profile political events promoting his agenda, he has often been less than rigorous in following important procedures, leading to poorly crafted legal efforts that risk being struck down in court.<\/p>\n<p>The result, they say, is that the rollbacks, intended to fulfill one of the president\u2019s central campaign pledges, may ultimately be undercut or reversed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn their rush to get things done, they\u2019re failing to dot their i\u2019s and cross their t\u2019s. And they\u2019re starting to stumble over a lot of trip wires,\u201d said Richard Lazarus, a professor of environmental law at Harvard. \u201cThey\u2019re producing a lot of short, poorly crafted rulemakings that are not likely to hold up in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good! We need all the help we can get! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/2016\/04\/0408Cartoon.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is both WWWendy day and Infernal Revenue Day.&#160; Please pass the Vaseline.&#160; Therefore, this is today&#8217;s only article. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (SNL Channel): Donald Trump Baltic States Cold Open &#160; I still think Baldwin does <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/08\/open-thread-4-8-2018\/' 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-32065","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\/32065","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=32065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}