{"id":32136,"date":"2018-04-16T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32136"},"modified":"2018-04-16T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:40:53","slug":"open-thread-4-16-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/open-thread-4-16-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m leaving for my meeting in a while, and this is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-16-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=siMal6QVblE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheNewYorkTimes\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Conversation With Native Americans on Race<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s enlightening to hear this from, the perspective of these young Natives. I would, however, like to have seen the perspectives of some older people included too. Racism is Republican. RESIST!! <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/siMal6QVblE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s enlightening to hear this from the perspective of these young Natives. I would, however, like to have also heard the views of some older people included. Racism is Republican. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-W823Co3g5o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Toobin: Comey&#8217;s account devastating for Trump<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-W823Co3g5o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with Toobin and think Trump&#8217;s bot was absurd. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-campaign-fec-financial-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump\u2019s re-election campaign has ramped up its fund-raising this year, bringing in $20.2 million, while investing heavily in cultivating a wide base of small donors, according to reports filed Sunday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Anyone foolish enough to donate will find their money spent on lawyers, porn stars and hookers. <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\/0416Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving for my meeting in a while, and this is my only article today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:51).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (NY Times Channel): A Conversation With Native Americans on Race It&#8217;s enlightening to hear this from, the perspective <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/open-thread-4-16-2017\/' 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-32136","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\/32136","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=32136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}