{"id":36064,"date":"2019-03-30T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36064"},"modified":"2019-03-31T00:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T07:53:37","slug":"open-thread-3-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/open-thread-3-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I must be feeling pretty tired, because I overslept again.\u00a0 I just got my A1c results.\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite pleased with 6.0.\u00a0 Tomorrow Wendy&#8217;s niece, Katie, is filling in for her.\u00a0 I hope to publish normally, but may not have time.\u00a0 If I can&#8217;t I won&#8217;t send links messages on Care2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:33 (average 5:04).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-30-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3vHXLCy7X4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>William Barr Improvises Role On Mueller Report Despite Clear Regulations (25 min.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3vHXLCy7X4U\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The more Republicans we subpoena (with cause), the better. Is Coverup General Barr suggesting that Moby Dick might contain evidence of whales, after all? People who believe anything Barr says are fools. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/joe-biden-lucy-flores-kiss_n_5c9e8025e4b0474c08cea7aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/span>Former Nevada Assembly woman Lucy Flores published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/03\/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed<\/a> in New York Magazine\u2019s The Cut on Friday alleging that Joe Biden inappropriately kissed and touched her after he offered to help her with her 2014 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Flores, who was running for Nevada lieutenant governor at the time, described her encounter with the former vice president as making her feel \u201cuneasy, gross, and confused.\u201d During a Las Vegas campaign rally, she alleges he approached her from behind, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair and kissed the back of her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI froze. \u2018Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?\u2019\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/03\/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed<\/a> the unwanted encounter with the likely 2020 candidate, which took place right before she was set to go onstage and speak.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I don&#8217;t want to rush to judgment, but I think it should be investigated and appropriate action taken. The Republican Reich already have a bush bandit running for Resident. Democrats cannot afford to copy them. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/03\/nras-wayne-lapierre-warns-that-group-may-be-shut-down-forever-thanks-to-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/span>National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre issued a stark warning that the group may be forced to shut down due to financial woes in a fundraising letter to supporters.<\/p>\n<p>LaPierre wrote in a four-page letter that the group may be forced to shutter \u201cvery soon,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/national-rifle-association-fundraising-letter-we-could-shutter-very-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Beast<\/a> reported. The NRA chief blamed the financial woes on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-cuomo-announces-filing-motion-dismiss-nra-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">directed state regulators<\/a> to \u201curge insurance companies, New York State-chartered banks, and other financial services companies licensed in New York to review any relationships they may have with the National Rifle Association.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaPierre wrote that Cuomo\u2019s \u201ctactics are already working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now we\u2019re facing an attack that\u2019s unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA, but in the entire history of our country. And if this attack succeeds, NRA will be forced to shut down forever,\u201d LaPierre wrote.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That would be wonderful. The demise of the NRA would open the door for the creation of a new organization to do the training in gun skill and safety that it used to do, when I was a member, half a century ago. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0330Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be feeling pretty tired, because I overslept again.\u00a0 I just got my A1c results.\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite pleased with 6.0.\u00a0 Tomorrow Wendy&#8217;s niece, Katie, is filling in for her.\u00a0 I hope to publish normally, but may not have time.\u00a0 If I can&#8217;t I won&#8217;t send links messages on Care2. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/open-thread-3-30-2019\/' 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-36064","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\/36064","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=36064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}