{"id":32225,"date":"2018-04-27T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T19:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32225"},"modified":"2018-04-27T12:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T19:21:59","slug":"open-thread-4-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/open-thread-4-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is today&#8217;s only article.&#160; Late yesterday afternoon a drainage plug on my AC vibrated loose, and I got up for supper to find my floor flooded.&#160; It&#8217;s easy enough to fix, except that I cannot get access to it in my chair.&#160; I had to turn off the AC.&#160; I tried to get help from staff here, but they answered neither the desk phone or the cell phone for over an hour.&#160; So I called WWWendy.&#160; It took her around an hour to get here.&#160; In the interim, my superheated wall had radiated the inside temperature rose to over 100\u00b0.&#160; She mopped up the water and put the plug back in.&#160; She&#8217;s such a sweetheart that I had to fight her to accept $20 extra for her extra work.&#160; It took the AC until later last night before the room was comfortable again, so I&#8217;m just too wrung out for more that this article.&#160; I expect to be back in the saddle tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:16 (average 4:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-27-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=aBG-McmXo2Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Trump Stomps On Own Legal Strategy With Blurting Rant On Fox News<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aBG-McmXo2Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even Faux Noise was trying to escape the implosion! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/paul-ryan-house-chaplain-tax-bill_us_5ae22593e4b02baed1b83cf6\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and while it\u2019s not clear why, Democratic lawmakers and Hill sources say it was driven by Ryan\u2019s distaste for one of Conroy\u2019s prayers about the GOP\u2019s tax bill.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/385035-house-chaplain-forced-out-by-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by The Hill, Conroy was clear in his resignation announcement that it wasn\u2019t his choice to go. It was Ryan\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through to read the prayer. It appears that the problem Lyin&#8217; Ryan had with the Chaplain is that he is a Christian, not a Republican. The two are opposites. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/26\/us\/teacher-walkout-arizona-colorado.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado walked out of their classrooms on Thursday to demand more funding for public schools, the latest surge of a teacher protest movement that has already swept through three states and is spreading quickly to others.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of public schools were shut down in Arizona because of the walkouts, which turned the streets of Downtown Phoenix into seas of crimson as educators and their supporters marched to the State Capitol wearing red T-shirts and chanting \u201cRed for Ed,\u201d as the movement is known here.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread teacher protests have in recent months upended daily routines in the conservative-leaning states West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky. But the sight of public workers protesting en masse in the Arizona capital, one of the largest Republican strongholds in the country, and demanding tax increases for more school funding, spoke to the enduring strength of the movement and signaled shifts in political winds ahead of this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the teachers. <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\/0427Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bad as he was, he would be better than what we have!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today&#8217;s only article.&#160; Late yesterday afternoon a drainage plug on my AC vibrated loose, and I got up for supper to find my floor flooded.&#160; It&#8217;s easy enough to fix, except that I cannot get access to it in my chair.&#160; I had to turn off the AC.&#160; I tried to get help <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/open-thread-4-27-2018\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225","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=32225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}