{"id":36017,"date":"2019-03-23T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36017"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:07:07","slug":"open-thread-3-23-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/23\/open-thread-3-23-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy is on the way, and<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> I&#8217;m in a rush.&nbsp; Update:&nbsp; I am de-stunk. WWWendy is cooking.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still in a rush.&nbsp; WWWendy returns your greetings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:33).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-23-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=N5s61BRxno0\" 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>Chuck Rosenberg: Trump Circle Not Out Of The Woods On Potential Charges<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/N5s61BRxno0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans may scream &#8220;no collusion&#8221;, but we need to count the beans in the can. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5i4Niz53MLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a><\/strong>): <\/font>WONDERFUL WORLD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5i4Niz53MLE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot on, Don. More governments have fallen to US economic imperialism than to any other cause. Readers, please visit Don&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">channel<\/a> and subscribe. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/pence-asks-jesus-to-rapture-him-up-before-mueller-can-indict-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Vice-President Mike Pence has requested that Jesus Christ rapture him up before the special counsel Robert Mueller can indict him, a source close to Pence confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the former national-security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I., Pence contacted Jesus to discuss the early rapture proposal, the source said.  <\/p>\n<p>The source characterized Pence\u2019s request to be raptured up as \u201curgent\u201d but did not indicate whether the Vice-President asked Jesus to rapture up any other senior Administration officials.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Mueller has no indictment for Pence. Also, Republicans don&#8217;t rapture. They crapture in a down direction. <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\/2018\/03\/0323Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy is on the way, and I&#8217;m in a rush.&nbsp; Update:&nbsp; I am de-stunk. WWWendy is cooking.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still in a rush.&nbsp; WWWendy returns your greetings. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:33).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/23\/open-thread-3-23-2018-2\/' 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-36017","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\/36017","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=36017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}