{"id":36049,"date":"2019-03-27T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36049"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:33:52","slug":"open-thread-3-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/open-thread-3-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day today, and I&#8217;m so worn out that I overslept for an hour.&nbsp; Store to Door will deliver groceries soon, and I have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming this evening.&nbsp; Her sons&#8217; father passed away, and she is taking her son to Iowa for the funeral.&nbsp; She will be gone from Thursday until Monday night.&nbsp; Her cousin is filling in Sunday.&nbsp; We have a ton of tasks to complete.&nbsp; Today I have a routine medical exam with Megan, my PCP.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:48 (average 6:15).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp;&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=QxyiFJEGLd0\" 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>Why Did So Many Donald Trump Associates Lie About Contact With Russians?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QxyiFJEGLd0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why? They lied to coverup their conspiracy with the Russians. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/william-barr-reads-moby-dick-finds-no-evidence-of-whales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Attorney General William Barr has just read the classic American novel \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0142437247\/?tag=thneyo0f-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moby-Dick<\/a>,\u201d by Herman Melville, and found that the book contains \u201cno evidence whatsoever of whales,\u201d Barr stated on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General issued his statement on the absence of whales in the Melville classic in a two-paragraph book report released to the news media.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who read \u2018Moby-Dick\u2019 looking for whales will be sorely disappointed,\u201d Barr wrote. \u201cThere are no whales here.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>To illustrate his point, Barr quoted the book\u2019s first sentence: \u201cCall me Ishmael.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can clearly see, that sentence does not have a whale in it,\u201d Barr wrote.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! If Coverup-General Barr had been a literary critic, we&#8217;d have the blessing of never having heard of him! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/26\/us\/politics\/endangered-species-david-bernhardt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>After years of effort, scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service had a moment of celebration as they wrapped up a comprehensive analysis of the threat that three widely used pesticides present to hundreds of endangered species, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2013-08\/documents\/san-joaquin-kitfox.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kit fox<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/ever\/learn\/nature\/csss.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seaside sparrow<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoohoo!\u201d Patrice Ashfield, then a branch chief at Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5778894-Trump-Era-Shift-Evaluating-Pesticide-Threats-to.html#document\/p42\/a488261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote to her colleagues<\/a> in August 2017.  <\/p>\n<p>Their analysis found that two of the pesticides, malathion and chlorpyrifos, were so toxic that they \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/laws-regulations\/summary-endangered-species-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jeopardize the continued existence<\/a>\u201d of more than 1,200 endangered birds, fish and other animals and plants, a conclusion that could lead to tighter restrictions on use of the chemicals.  <\/p>\n<p>But just before the team planned to make its findings public in November 2017, something unexpected happened: Top political appointees of the Interior Department, which oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, blocked the release and set in motion a new process intended to apply a much narrower standard to determine the risks from the pesticides.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Party of Death strikes again! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0327Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day today, and I&#8217;m so worn out that I overslept for an hour.&nbsp; Store to Door will deliver groceries soon, and I have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming this evening.&nbsp; Her sons&#8217; father passed away, and she is taking her son to Iowa for the funeral.&nbsp; She <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/open-thread-3-27-2019\/' 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-36049","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\/36049","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=36049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}