{"id":32195,"date":"2018-04-23T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32195"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:44:32","slug":"open-thread-4-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/open-thread-4-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I must have been more tired than I realized, because I overslept big-time this morning.&#160; Instead of my normal 4:45 AM, my eyes opened at 6:30.&#160; I must have tired myself trying to boost green clouds on their way north.&#160; We&#8217;re about to enter a heat wave with 80\u00b0 highs on Tuesday through Thursday, so I&#8217;ll be buttoning up and running the AC.&#160; Otherwise, I don&#8217;t have much on tap this week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:44 (average 5:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-23-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=-3h4Xt9No9o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why Atlantic fish are invading the Arctic<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-3h4Xt9No9o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What the Republican Reich fails to see is that protecting the arctic is necessary to protect us. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-officials-urge-democrats-to-reconsider-support-for-pompeo-ahead-of-monday-committee-vote\/2018\/04\/23\/59841c5e-46ef-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Senior White House officials on Monday urged Democrats and a key Republican to reconsider their positions on Mike Pompeo\u2019s nomination as secretary of state ahead of what could be an unfavorable committee vote later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly hope that some members will change their minds,\u201d White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a morning interview on Fox News, in which she accused Democrats of playing \u201cpolitical games\u201d with Trump\u2019s nomination of Pompeo, the current CIA director.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The more Democrats reconsider him, the more opposed they become. State is a soft-spoken diplomatic post. Pompeo is a blithering absolutist hatemonger.&#160; That is NOT a match! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/reports-tn-shooting-suspect-said-he-was-sovereign-citizen-before-wh-arrest\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>The man who allegedly shot and killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/waffle-house-shooting-victims-identified-today-2018-04-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">four young people of color<\/a> in a Nashville Waffle House early Sunday identified himself as a \u201csovereign citizen\u201d last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/22\/us\/waffle-house-shooter-white-house\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/04\/22\/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen\/540543002\/\">outlets<\/a> reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The outlets cited an arrest report covering the alleged gunman\u2019s confrontation with Secret Service officers outside the White House in July of last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/22\/us\/waffle-house-shooter-white-house\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/04\/22\/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen\/540543002\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a> reported that the alleged gunman, Travis Reinking, told Secret Service officers that he had to get onto White House grounds to speak to President Donald Trump. The reports also said he identified himself to Secret Service as a \u201csovereign citizen\u201d and that he therefore had a right to access the White House grounds.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What we have here is another Republican Ammosexual terrorist. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0423Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have been more tired than I realized, because I overslept big-time this morning.&#160; Instead of my normal 4:45 AM, my eyes opened at 6:30.&#160; I must have tired myself trying to boost green clouds on their way north.&#160; We&#8217;re about to enter a heat wave with 80\u00b0 highs on Tuesday through Thursday, so <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/open-thread-4-23-2018\/' 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-32195","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\/32195","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=32195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}