{"id":32083,"date":"2018-04-10T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32083"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:01:47","slug":"open-thread-4-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/open-thread-4-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another day, here at the CatBox and my kitty but is trying to recover from Infernal Revenue Day.&#160; The weather was so warm last night that the natives were restless and made lots of noise.&#160; I slept poorly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:25 (average 5:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-10-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=2rnNHt84iRE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why you keep using Facebook, even if you hate it<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2rnNHt84iRE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play! <strong>Unplug<\/strong>! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTcYhQ49CQQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>People on Fox News are directly advising Trump through the TV<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wTcYhQ49CQQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump is a propagandist, who has come to believe the propaganda himself.&#160; ARGH!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Senator Merkley responds to Trump tirade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Jeff Merkley responds to President Trump&#8217;s diatribe about the FBI raid of his personal attorney as well as Trump&#8217;s vow to use forceful action against Syria. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_fmerkleytrump_180409\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jeff&#8217;s views are astute, and I&#8217;m proud to say that they mirror my own. Oregon leads the way. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/jamie-allman-david-hogg-poker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snopes<\/a>: <\/font>In the aftermath of a deadly high school school [<em>sic<\/em>] mass shooting in Parkland, Florida in February 2018, some commentators verbally attacked a group of students who survived the mass shooting and became leaders in the anti-gun violence #NeverAgain movement. <\/p>\n<p>Ted Nugent, the pro-gun rights, right-wing rock musician, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/ap\/2018\/04\/01\/ted-nugent-parkland-teens-attacking-nra-no-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\">denounced<\/a> the teen activists, including Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, saying they have \u201cno soul\u201d and calling them \u201cmushy-brained children.\u201d Fox News host Laura Ingraham apologized to Hogg after mocking him for \u201cwhining\u201d about not get into several colleges \u2014 a tweet that prompted several advertisers to withdraw their support from Ingraham\u2019s show. <\/p>\n<p>And in March 2018, conservative radio and television personality Jamie Allman mused on Twitter about sodomizing Hogg with a \u201chot poker\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Nugent is an NRA Board Member. Behold the love of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the polar opposite of authentic Christians.&#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; 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\/0410Cartoon.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another day, here at the CatBox and my kitty but is trying to recover from Infernal Revenue Day.&#160; The weather was so warm last night that the natives were restless and made lots of noise.&#160; I slept poorly. 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