{"id":35852,"date":"2019-03-05T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35852"},"modified":"2019-03-05T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:08:17","slug":"open-thread-3-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/open-thread-3-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/4\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a frigid day here at the CatBox, and I was starting to wonder if we would need to rebuild the site from scratch.&nbsp; We were 90%+ crashed since early Friday afternoon, until this morning.&nbsp; Our graphic comment editor crashed the site, so I had to take it out, along with all it&#8217;s bells and whistles that we all loved. \ud83d\ude41&nbsp; WordPress plans WYSIWYG comment editing with the next major release.&nbsp; Please do not use links in comments, unless you know how to edit it to blank the target.&nbsp; In hope of preventing this, I invested in a utility to backup the core elements of the site.&nbsp; This will be today&#8217;s only article, and I should be back in the saddle tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Saturday&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 4:42).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-02-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; Sunday&#8217;s took me 3:04 (average 5:28).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; Today&#8217;s took me 4:09 (average 5:10).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=sOyOOkjQkTs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>At CPAC Gorka Claims Dems \u2018Want To Take Away Your Hamburgers\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sOyOOkjQkTs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m continually amazed that Sheeple are so stupid that they actually believe that garbage. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P19R_ok5Mrk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Panelist: Disheartening to see CPAC Republicans clap like seals<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/P19R_ok5Mrk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every year, CPUKE is worse than it was the year before. Why? Every year, the Republican Reich is worse than it was the year before. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/03\/04\/677939609\/former-colorado-gov-john-hickenlooper-joins-the-2020-democratic-presidential-fra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>: <\/font>Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/31\/689980506\/which-democrats-are-running-in-2020-and-which-still-might\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the second governor to join a crowded field of candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QwIk0hUmzk8&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short video<\/a> released Monday morning, Hickenlooper pledged to fight what he referred to as a crisis that threatens everything America stands for, as a picture of President Trump flashed on the screen, &#8220;As a skinny kid with Coke bottle glasses and a funny last name. I&#8217;ve stood up to my fair share of bullies. Standing tall when it matters is one of the things that really drives me.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll leave it to JD to comment on this one. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0304Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a frigid day here at the CatBox, and I was starting to wonder if we would need to rebuild the site from scratch.&nbsp; We were 90%+ crashed since early Friday afternoon, until this morning.&nbsp; Our graphic comment editor crashed the site, so I had to take it out, along with all it&#8217;s bells and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/open-thread-3-4-2019\/' 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-35852","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\/35852","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=35852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}