{"id":35920,"date":"2019-03-10T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35920"},"modified":"2019-03-10T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T15:01:40","slug":"open-thread-3-10-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/10\/open-thread-3-10-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/10\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m one hour more tired than I should be.&nbsp; WWWendy is due shortly.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:28 (average 4:36).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-10-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=Fdb4vb9Qo2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Weekend Update: Paul Manafort Sentenced to Prison<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Fdb4vb9Qo2c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s pretty bad when it&#8217;s hard to differentiate SNL from actual news. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/god-offers-people-of-alabama-new-bibles-to-replace-ones-trump-signed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>God has offered to give the people of Alabama brand new Bibles to replace the ones that Donald J. Trump signed during his visit to the state on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare public statement from the famously mysterious deity, God said that He was furious at Trump \u201cfor defacing My book,\u201d calling Trump\u2019s signature \u201ca wanton act of vandalism.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere was Mike Pence in all of this?\u201d God asked. \u201cThese people can\u2019t do anything right.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>God added that He was \u201cdumbfounded\u201d that Trump had taken it upon himself to sign his name on a book to which he had \u201cno relationship whatsoever.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen, Andy! Amen, God! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/bernie-sanders-2020-election-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The sharp left turn in the Democratic Party and the rise of progressive presidential candidates are unnerving moderate Democrats who increasingly fear that the party could fritter away its chances of beating President Trump in 2020 by careening over a liberal cliff.  <\/p>\n<p>Two months into the presidential campaign, the leading Democratic contenders have largely broken with consensus-driven politics and embraced leftist ideas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/medicare-for-all-2020.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health care<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/08\/business\/democratic-wealth-tax-warren-sanders-ocasio-cortez.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taxes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/green-new-deal.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the environment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/ilhan-omar-israel.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Middle East policy<\/a> that would fundamentally alter the economy, elements of foreign policy and ultimately remake American life.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hillary demonstrated that a &#8220;moderate&#8221; (corporate centrist) nominee could allow Republicans to get close enough to steal the White House again. We need someone more progressive. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0310Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0310Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0310Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m one hour more tired than I should be.&nbsp; WWWendy is due shortly. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:28 (average 4:36).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (SNL Channel): Weekend Update: Paul Manafort Sentenced to Prison &nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/10\/open-thread-3-10-2019\/' 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-35920","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\/35920","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=35920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}