{"id":36059,"date":"2019-03-29T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36059"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:49:21","slug":"open-thread-3-29-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/open-thread-3-29-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/29\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had a busy day yesterday, and after a long week, I&#8217;m feeling quite tired.&nbsp; My only medical issue is a yeast infection in the diaper area.&nbsp; No wonder the antibiotic ointment didn&#8217;t work.&nbsp; My next trip put isn&#8217;t until a week from Monday for my semi-annual eye torture.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:18).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-29-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\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1qKd9fDLku8\" 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>Rep. Adam Schiff\u2019s Controlled Anger At GOP\u2019s Indifference On Russia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1qKd9fDLku8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Have truer words than Schiff&#8217;s ever been spoken? I think not. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sfS9sFNWy5E\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">See DeVos&#8217; reaction to CNN&#8217;s questions after testimony<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sfS9sFNWy5E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every penny Democrats can&#8217;t spend on disabled kids is a penny Republicans can give to a billionaire. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/27\/1845550\/-Neil-Gorsuch-says-no-one-can-sue-to-stop-government-establishing-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>One inherent danger of allowing a religious minority to install a puppet controlled by religious fanatics in the White House is the now unfolding threat of government officially establishing religion \u2013 the Christian religion. Any American\u2019s confidence that the U.S. Constitution is a protection against government establishing religion is grossly misplaced and, that belief is about to be disabused by the current religious conservatives responsible for adjudicating the law of the land. <\/p>\n<p>Because a nearly half-century-old Supreme Court ruling prevented the government from advancing religion, the wall of separation between church and state is almost certainly going to be eviscerated by the Christian conservatives on the current Supreme Court. The crusade to demolish the wall of separation is being advanced by one of the Heritage Foundation SCOTUS nominees confirmed shortly afterTrump corrupted every aspect of&nbsp; the government his tiny little hands touched. However, it is noteworthy that Neil Gorsuch\u2019s theocratic crusade is wholly supported by Trump\u2019s other SCOTUS appointee, religious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/five-times-brett-kavanaugh-appears-to-have-lied-to-congress-while-under-oath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/03\/politics\/yale-roommate-kavanaugh-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">liar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@remakingmanhood\/the-kavanaugh-hearings-echo-the-patterns-of-assault-1b26318eaec8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual abuser<\/a> Brett Kavanaugh.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The reason the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Establishment_Clause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Establishment Clause<\/a>\u201d is going to be found unconstitutional by the current Court\u2019s Christian conservatives is crystal clear; they believe a 1970\u2019s-era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/403\/602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruling<\/a> prohibiting government establishment of religion adhered to the U.S. Constitution and is patently wrong. The prohibition on government establishing religion is appalling to evangelicals and the theocrats on the High Court are not going to tolerate it any longer.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with this author with one highly notable exception. Republicans are not establishing the Christian Religion. There is nothing remotely Christian about the Republican anti-Christian dogma of hate, lies, and oppression. Their religion is the polar opposite of authentic Christianity. It&#8217;s Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity. <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\/0329Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a busy day yesterday, and after a long week, I&#8217;m feeling quite tired.&nbsp; My only medical issue is a yeast infection in the diaper area.&nbsp; No wonder the antibiotic ointment didn&#8217;t work.&nbsp; My next trip put isn&#8217;t until a week from Monday for my semi-annual eye torture.&nbsp; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/open-thread-3-29-2019\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059","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=36059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}