{"id":32286,"date":"2018-05-01T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32286"},"modified":"2018-05-01T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:46:14","slug":"open-thread-5-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/open-thread-5-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/1\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy May day from the CatBox.&#160; It&#8217;s been a very busy day here.&#160; I installed a new poll.&#160; I made the graphics and collected all the data I&#8217;ll need for tomorrow&#8217;s report.&#160; I prepared my grocery order and ordered groceries from store to door.&#160; I spent a half hour in chat with my HSP.&#160; Animae&#8217;s ISP is blocking my email replies to her.&#160; Animae, if you read this tell them I&#8217;m not a damn spammer.&#160; They are ignoring email from me asking to be taken off their abuse list.&#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 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-01-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=M6hcCXjbvPc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>NY Times Publishes Robert Mueller&#8217;s Questions For President Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/M6hcCXjbvPc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I strongly suspect that Mueller already knows the answers to virtually all the questions. He has almost finished with everyone else and is now zeroing in on his main target. For the list of questions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/30\/us\/politics\/questions-mueller-wants-to-ask-trump-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LN87jTG0iRI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Michelle Malkin on politics and comedy, then and now<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LN87jTG0iRI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the first segment, Malkin was reacting to displeasure on the left at GW Bush, the second worst Resident in history, pretending to look for Osama bin Laden under the furniture, treating his own failure, as if it was no big deal. In the second segment Malkin demonstrated Republican hypocrisy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/4\/27\/1760450\/-Conservatives-Draw-The-Line-No-Catholics-Or-Women-Without-Kids-For-New-House-Chaplain\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Many may not know this (most people don\u2019t), but Patrick Conroy, the Chaplain of the House recently <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/385035-house-chaplain-forced-out-by-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">forced out<\/a> by Representative and Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan for being insufficiently grateful for the Republican tax cuts, was a Catholic, and as such, unmarried and without children.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the conservatives who now steer the Republican Party\u2019s policies are going to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/385097-conservative-leader-next-house-chaplain-should-have-a-family\" target=\"_blank\">make damned sure that never happens again:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bradley-mark-walker\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Walker<\/a> (R-N.C.), one of the leaders of the committee searching for a replacement for the ousted House chaplain, said the next spiritual leader of the House should be <strong>someone with a family who can better relate to and counsel lawmakers with spouses and children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Walker is Chairman of something called the \u201cRepublican Study Committee\u201d and co-chair of something called the \u201cPrayer Caucus\u201d in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A Rabbi can have a family, but I bet a dollar they wouldn&#8217;t accept a chaplain that says, &quot;Oy gevalt&quot;, either. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nra-gun-ban-during-pences-speech-leaves-him-vulnerable-to-bear-attack-devos-warns\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The National Rifle Association\u2019s decision to ban guns during Mike Pence\u2019s speech at its annual meeting in Dallas this week \u201cleaves him totally vulnerable to a bear attack,\u201d the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, warned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at the Education Department, DeVos said that she was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d that the N.R.A. was underestimating the danger posed to Pence by \u201cthe savagery of one rogue bear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll it would take is one angry bear to ruin what otherwise promises to be a really nice gun event,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Does the best three word response to the Pence speech begin with, &quot;Ready\u2026 Aim\u2026&quot; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/>&#160; <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\/05\/0501Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican elephant rides the rest of us.&#160; Other elephants are blameless.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy May day from the CatBox.&#160; It&#8217;s been a very busy day here.&#160; I installed a new poll.&#160; I made the graphics and collected all the data I&#8217;ll need for tomorrow&#8217;s report.&#160; I prepared my grocery order and ordered groceries from store to door.&#160; I spent a half hour in chat with my HSP.&#160; Animae&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/open-thread-5-1-2018\/' 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-32286","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\/32286","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=32286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}