{"id":32157,"date":"2018-04-18T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32157"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:47:15","slug":"open-thread-4-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/open-thread-4-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a seasonable day here at the CatBox.&#160; Store to door delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; I hope your day is Republican-free.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:52 (average 4:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-18-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=mkWAjaVlhHc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>What Alex Jones said about the Sandy Hook shooting<\/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\/mkWAjaVlhHc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I understand that the parents of the dead children are suing that vile Republican son of a bitch. More power to them!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/hannity-says-he-totally-forgot-michael-cohen-was-his-lawyer-when-he-criticized-fbi-raid-on-his-office\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One week after lambasting the F.B.I.\u2019s raid on Michael D. Cohen\u2019s office as a \u201cfishing expedition,\u201d Sean Hannity said that he \u201ctotally forgot,\u201d when he made those comments, that Michael D. Cohen was his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I called the raid on Michael D. Cohen\u2019s office a \u2018fishing expedition\u2019 last week, it completely slipped my mind that my lawyer is, in fact, Michael D. Cohen,\u201d the Fox News host told his viewers. \u201cMy bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had remembered at the time that Michael D. Cohen was my lawyer, and that some of the documents that were seized most likely involve me, I would of course have mentioned those things on the air,\u201d he said. \u201cBut honestly, the name \u2018Michael D. Cohen,\u2019 and the address of his office, just did not ring a bell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannity said that his wife would \u201chave a field day\u201d with his forgetting Michael D. Cohen\u2019s name, because she always teases him for \u201chaving a brain like a sieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I could believe that he actually said that! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/james-comey-says-he-is-not-making-fun-of-trump-in-memoir\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday defended his editorial choice to include details in his new memoir painting President Donald Trump in an unflattering light by pointing out vestiges of his tanning habit and focusing on the size of his hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not making fun of the President,\u201d Comey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/04\/17\/602917030\/transcript-james-comeys-full-interview-with-steve-inskeep-and-carrie-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">told NPR\u2019s Carrie Johnson and Steve Inskeep<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m trying to be an author, which I\u2019ve never been before in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comey added that he was just trying to show readers how the world looked to him, including details to illustrate his narrative, not to belittle the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, not that this matters, but I found his hands to be about average in size, and so I\u2019m not making fun of the man, I\u2019m trying to tell the reader what\u2019s in my head,\u201d he said.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">By saying that Trump has average size hands <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-surprisedsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Surprised smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wlEmoticon-surprisedsmile.png\" \/>, Comey lost all credibility. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/>&#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\/2015\/04\/0418Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a seasonable day here at the CatBox.&#160; Store to door delivered groceries, and I put them away.&#160; Wendy is coming this evening to destink the TomCat.&#160; I hope your day is Republican-free. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:52 (average 4:10).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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