{"id":35958,"date":"2019-03-15T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35958"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:17:23","slug":"open-thread-3-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/open-thread-3-15-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/15\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t know why, but I overslept and feel very tired today.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll just get done ASAP.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 5:38).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; Yow 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=lqVE4G4cgVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>During Fox News&#8217; emergency meeting with ad buyers, protesters tell advertisers to #DropFox<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lqVE4G4cgVA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the protestors. The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, deserves extinction. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Wv-dBat3Ls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCstJWeqykNShLDUYac7kkJQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Progressive Politics Channel<\/a>): <\/font>CNN Wants To Teach You About Socialism<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9Wv-dBat3Ls\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We are a mixed economy. Fire and police protection, for example, are socialized. Ideal Communism is a state where there is no government. Everyone contributes according to their ability and consumes according to their need. It does not exist on any national scale. Modern Communism is a dictatorship pretending socialism. The Republican goal is plutocratic fascism. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/betsy-devos-suggests-that-bribing-colleges-helps-students-learn-math?utm_brand=tny&amp;amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_031419&amp;amp;bxid=5bea12573f92a404696710df&amp;amp;user_id=24434635&amp;amp;esrc=NYR_BOROWITZ_BLOG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Offering an upbeat assessment of the headline-grabbing college-admissions scandal, Betsy DeVos said on Thursday that bribing colleges gave students \u201ca really neat opportunity\u201d to learn math.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of Education suggested that, rather than keeping children in the dark about the bribes that enable their college acceptances, \u201cParents should sit around the kitchen table with their kids and work on some fun math problems together.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say it\u2019ll cost Amber seventy-five thousand dollars to get into Stanford, and it\u2019ll cost her twin brother Dylan seventy-five thousand to get into Georgetown,\u201d she said. \u201cHow much money total will their parents have to wire?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr let\u2019s say Jenna has a 470 verbal score, but she needs a 730 to get into Yale,\u201d DeVos said. \u201cHow much will she have to pay to get her score changed?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, she might not have said that, but you stole her idea. RESIST!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0315Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0315Cartoon-2013.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ryan may be gone, but the goal remains.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I overslept and feel very tired today.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll just get done ASAP. Jig Zone: Today&#8217;s took me 3:44 (average 5:38).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; Yow did you do? 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