{"id":32112,"date":"2018-04-13T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32112"},"modified":"2018-04-13T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:40:10","slug":"open-thread-4-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/open-thread-4-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a comfortable Friday the 13th, here at the CatBox, and I slept well last night.&#160; A few more nights like that just might have me feeling fully feline.&#160; Tomorrow I may have no more than an Open Thread.&#160; I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, and I&#8217;ll just have to see how much time I have.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:44 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-13-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=TD2Fu9bFsHM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>TIPPY TOP &#8211; The Nuclear Posture Review<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TD2Fu9bFsHM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fortunately, I don&#8217;t have to let Earl Blumenauer know, as I already know how he&#8217;ll vote, but I will call to thank him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/04\/13\/james-comey-interview-trump-response-522049\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump went into attack mode against James Comey on Friday morning, calling the former FBI director an \u201cuntruthful slime ball\u201d and a \u201cliar &amp; leaker\u201d after Comey suggested in an ABC News interview that it is &quot;possible&quot; that salacious allegations about the president and prostitutes in Moscow are true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Comey is a proven LEAKER &amp; LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH,\u201d Trump wrote in a statement that stretched across two Twitter posts. \u201cHe is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst \u2018botch jobs\u2019 of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> has a great clip on Comey&#8217;s book. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/furious-koch-brothers-sell-paul-ryan-on-ebay\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a fit of pique, David and Charles Koch have unceremoniously listed House Speaker Paul Ryan for sale on the auction site eBay.<\/p>\n<p>The Kochs, who reportedly had purchased Ryan for a sum estimated in the tens of millions, now seem likely to lose their entire investment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ryan\u2019s listing on the auction site, the Kochs set a five-hundred-dollar asking price for the used congressman, a figure that, in light of the tepid bidding for him, seems optimistic.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy, Wouldn&#8217;t $1 be too high a price, let alone $50?&#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\/2016\/04\/0413Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"FridayThe13th\" 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=\"FridayThe13th\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FridayThe13th.gif\" width=\"650\" height=\"607\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a comfortable Friday the 13th, here at the CatBox, and I slept well last night.&#160; A few more nights like that just might have me feeling fully feline.&#160; Tomorrow I may have no more than an Open Thread.&#160; I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, and I&#8217;ll just have to see how much time I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/open-thread-4-13-2018\/' 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-32112","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\/32112","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=32112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}