{"id":32236,"date":"2018-04-28T13:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32236"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:55:05","slug":"open-thread-4-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/open-thread-4-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m mostly recovered from Thursday evening&#8217;s ordeal, and am looking forward to a week of seasonal weather.\u00a0 Somehow I have a feeling that one of the hottest summers in history is just around the corner.\u00a0 I am watching my Broncos doings in the NFL draft and I want to remind you that we need two more players in our fantasy football league.\u00a0 Please reply here.<\/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 2:53 (average 4:16).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-28-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=r-AOhupLmVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Is Arizona Special Election The GOP\u2019s Canary In The Coal Mine?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/r-AOhupLmVE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I too think we have a blue wave coming, unless idiots think it&#8217;s OK to vote third party, because Democrats will win anyway, like they did in 2016. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/4\/26\/1760219\/-FOX-Poll-Most-Americans-think-Mueller-s-probe-will-find-Trump-committed-impeachable-offenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span>A Fox News poll [<em>Faux Noise delinked<\/em>] released this week found that most Americans believe the Russia probe will yield impeachable offenses and a solid two-thirds of the public think completing the probe is important to some extent. The Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/384925-fox-news-poll-majority-think-mueller-will-find-trump-committed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-six [percent] of respondents in the poll said they believed Mueller\u2019s probe will find that Trump committed the offenses. And 67 percent say they believe it\u2019s at least somewhat important that Mueller\u2019s investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>However, 71 percent said they think that Trump will fire Mueller before the probe is over. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-four percent of respondents in the poll overall also said they believe Mueller is treating the White House fairly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m amazed that <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, didn&#8217;t cover this up. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/27\/climate\/epa-emissions-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>The Trump administration has drafted a new set of regulations on planet-warming emissions from cars and light trucks that would dramatically weaken Obama-era standards. The proposal, if implemented, would also set up a legal clash between the federal government and California by challenging the state\u2019s authority to set its own, stricter, air pollution rules.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the proposal, which is being jointly drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department and is expected to be sent to the White House for approval in coming days, were described to The New York Times by a federal official who had seen them but was not authorized to discuss the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/02\/climate\/trump-auto-emissions-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an announcement this month<\/a> by the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, that the Trump administration intended to weaken the stringent vehicle fuel economy standards set by the Obama administration that aimed to roughly double the average fuel economy of new cars, S.U.V.s and light trucks by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With Trump&#8217;s appointed criminals, the only thing worse than what they steal from taxpayers is that they institute Republican policies. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0428Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In the foolishness of youth I thought we (progressives) had won, but back then, we called ourselves radicals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m mostly recovered from Thursday evening&#8217;s ordeal, and am looking forward to a week of seasonal weather.\u00a0 Somehow I have a feeling that one of the hottest summers in history is just around the corner.\u00a0 I am watching my Broncos doings in the NFL draft and I want to remind you that we need two <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/open-thread-4-28-2018\/' 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-32236","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\/32236","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=32236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}