{"id":32167,"date":"2018-04-20T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32167"},"modified":"2018-04-20T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:06:27","slug":"open-thread-4-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/open-thread-4-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/20\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m hurrying, because I have to leave for my Prosthetist appointment for George.\u00a0 This is my only article today, and if I don&#8217;t get it up before I go, I shall do so on my return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 4:58).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HAlJao0M5Yc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Should You Vote for a Third Party?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HAlJao0M5Yc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How many times have I said the exact same thing? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/span><strong>Comey memos immediately leaked after FBI delivers to Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Rachel Maddow about the notes he took after meeting with Donald Trump, which have now leaked to the public after they were delivered by the FBI to Congress.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_acomey_180419\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click through for the rest of Rachel&#8217;s interviews with Comey. Of course Republicans leaked the memos. They hope to taint the evidence. RESIST!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/19\/us\/politics\/giuliani-trump.html?emc=edit_th_180420&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=318761730420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and longtime friend of President Trump, will join the president\u2019s legal team in an effort to \u201cquickly\u201d resolve the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible ties to Trump associates.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump will also bring on Jane Serene Raskin and Martin R. Raskin, former federal prosecutors based in Florida, according to Mr. Trump\u2019s lawyer Jay Sekulow. Mr. Giuliani is himself a former federal prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dang! The Fuhrer&#8217;s legal problems can now be summarized in just two words: &#8220;nine eleven&#8221;. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0420Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hurrying, because I have to leave for my Prosthetist appointment for George.\u00a0 This is my only article today, and if I don&#8217;t get it up before I go, I shall do so on my return. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 4:58).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/open-thread-4-20-2018\/' 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-32167","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\/32167","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=32167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}