{"id":32068,"date":"2018-04-09T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32068"},"modified":"2018-04-09T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:06:27","slug":"open-thread-4-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/open-thread-4-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/9\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was Infernal Revenue Day, which was a horrible pain in the ass, but at least I didn&#8217;t owe any money.&#160; I fed WWWendy ribs, and I bet Oh and Shit (what I call her shih Tzu&#160; <em>dawgs<\/em>) loved the bones.&#160; Today is the hottest day of the year to date.&#160; The Sun just hit the wall, so I know I&#8217;ll have to button up and turn on the A\/C soon.&#160; On a scale of one to ten, I&#8217;m pooped.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:30 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-09-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=msD4agiRTxM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>What melting sea ice means for life in the Arctic<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/msD4agiRTxM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be better to leave it the Arctic as it is? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2018\/04\/09\/scott-running-for-senate-in-epic-showdown-with-nelson-test-of-trumps-popularity-354385\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Florida Gov. Rick Scott makes his long-awaited Senate candidacy official Monday, setting up an epic battle against incumbent Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/cd.politicopro.com\/member\/51221\">Bill Nelson<\/a> and testing the limits of whether a close alliance with President Donald Trump is political poison or a pathway to success in the nation\u2019s biggest swing state.<\/p>\n<p>Scott has never shied away from his friendship with Trump \u2014 who has repeatedly urged him to run against Nelson, Florida\u2019s only statewide elected Democrat. And regardless of the constant string of White House controversies, Scott has only distanced himself from the president to the mildest of degrees.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It there was ever a classic example of needing to support a DINO, this is it! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/04\/09\/fox-news-accidentally-broadcast-graphic-showing-least-trusted-news-network-7452446\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News have accidentally broadcast a graphic showing that they are the least trusted major news network. The broadcaster displayed the Monmouth University poll results during its Tight Shot show Sunday, with less than a third of Americans trusting it more than President Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0409fox\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0409fox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0409fox.jpg\" width=\"748\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hahahahahahahaha!!&#160; <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\/2017\/04\/0409Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans call this fake news.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Infernal Revenue Day, which was a horrible pain in the ass, but at least I didn&#8217;t owe any money.&#160; I fed WWWendy ribs, and I bet Oh and Shit (what I call her shih Tzu&#160; dawgs) loved the bones.&#160; Today is the hottest day of the year to date.&#160; The Sun just hit <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/open-thread-4-9-2018\/' 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-32068","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\/32068","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=32068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}