{"id":32203,"date":"2018-04-24T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32203"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:10:47","slug":"open-thread-4-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/24\/open-thread-4-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/24\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat have has begun.&#160; It&#8217;s only 71\u00b0 outside right now, but the sun has been super-heating the brickwork of my wall all morning.&#160; When the inside temperature passed 80\u00b0, I buttoned up the room and turned on the A\/C.&#160; It should reach the mid 80\u00b0s today.&#160; Tomorrow and Friday will be worse.&#160; April is too early for this.&#160; ARGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 4:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font>&#160; <font color=\"#0000ff\">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=fLGu4hvpBF0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BuzzFeedVideo\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">BuffFeed Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Weird Laws From All 50 US States<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fLGu4hvpBF0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OOPS! Once I violated the Oregon law!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/23\/us\/nashville-shooting-suspect-guns.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>He was once reported to the police in Illinois for stashing an AR-15 in the trunk of his car and then diving into a public pool wearing a women\u2019s pink housecoat. There was the time he complained to an officer that the singer Taylor Swift had demanded a rendezvous. And then last July he was grabbed by the Secret Service when he tried to force his way on to the White House grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Reinking, 29, was on the radar of law enforcement well before he was taken into custody on Monday and accused of barging into a Nashville Waffle House over the weekend and opening fire, killing four and injuring four more.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even after the Illinois police revoked his firearms license and ordered that his guns be transferred to his father, Mr. Reinking got them back, including the AR-15 used in the Tennessee shooting, the police said. His case raises questions over how such a troubled individual could have legally carried weapons for so long and could have continued to carry them even after he was ordered to give them up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a man who has exhibited significant instability,\u201d acknowledged Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The police say that Mr. Reinking\u2019s father, Jeffrey, the owner of a crane business near the town of Morton, Ill., returned the guns to his son, enabling Travis Reinking to carry out the killings over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Reinking\u2019s act of returning the guns to his son is \u201cpotentially a violation of federal law,\u201d Marcus Watson, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Jeffrey belongs in a cell, but I&#8217;d also like to know what political organizations he supports, as I bet he&#8217;s the source of his son&#8217;s ideas. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/breeding-concept-trump-using-language-white-supremacists-no-coincidence-because-he-one\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump is a white supremacist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/is-it-a-coincidence-that-trump-uses-the-language-of-white-supremacy\/2018\/04\/20\/01a2c202-44aa-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.86faa09afa94\" target=\"_blank\">which is why it\u2019s no coincidence<\/a> that that language he uses to demonize people of color\u2014Mexican immigrants, in particular\u2014is the same language of self-avowed white supremacists and neo-Nazis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/is-it-a-coincidence-that-trump-uses-the-language-of-white-supremacy\/2018\/04\/20\/01a2c202-44aa-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.86faa09afa94\">Columnist Dana Milbank:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested &amp; breeding concept,\u201d the president tweeted [<em>Tweeting twit delinked<\/em>] on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>What could he mean? Immigrants are breeding thoroughbred horses? Prize-winning cattle?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps Trump was using \u201cbreeding\u201d in the sense now popular among white supremacists?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is there any question about what the Fuhrer means? Of course it&#8217;s racist. He&#8217;s a Republican! <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\/2015\/04\/0424Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat have has begun.&#160; It&#8217;s only 71\u00b0 outside right now, but the sun has been super-heating the brickwork of my wall all morning.&#160; When the inside temperature passed 80\u00b0, I buttoned up the room and turned on the A\/C.&#160; It should reach the mid 80\u00b0s today.&#160; Tomorrow and Friday will be worse.&#160; April is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/24\/open-thread-4-24-2018\/' 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-32203","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\/32203","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=32203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}