{"id":36079,"date":"2019-04-01T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36079"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:20:55","slug":"open-thread-4-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/open-thread-4-1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/1\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox as I have lots of tasks to complete including my annual prescription review with my Medicare Advantage company.&nbsp; The rest of my test results came in, and I may be in trouble.&nbsp; My blood is so good that vampires will surely be after me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:43 (average 4:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-01-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=Eqn3iI_h1vg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>THE DAY COLLUSION DIED<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Eqn3iI_h1vg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Subscribe to Don, please. Collusion is still alive and well, as Russia is now working to steal 2020 for Putin&#8217;s Pervert and his Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/house-judiciary-plans-vote-this-week-to-subpoena-muellers-report\/2019\/04\/01\/411e24a6-5469-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote Wednesday to authorize subpoenas to obtain the full report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, escalating a feud with the Justice Department over a lengthy document detailing findings about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on Monday announced plans for the panel\u2019s vote, which would take place a day after a deadline the committee set for Attorney General William P. Barr to share the report.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/redacted-mueller-report-expected-to-be-released-by-mid-april\/2019\/03\/29\/16276f66-5287-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html?utm_term=.1110dd7690f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barr pledged last week<\/a> to release a redacted version by mid-April, well after Nadler\u2019s deadline. Nadler\u2019s committee is seeking to obtain the \u201cfull and complete report,\u201d which spans nearly 400 pages, as well as underlying evidence.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is exactly what Nadler should do <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JuAMlqjkRnQ\" 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>Tapper pushes back on Mulvaney over Trump cutting aid  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JuAMlqjkRnQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is so absurd that even the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, is condemning it. <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\/04\/0401Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox as I have lots of tasks to complete including my annual prescription review with my Medicare Advantage company.&nbsp; The rest of my test results came in, and I may be in trouble.&nbsp; My blood is so good that vampires will surely be after me. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/open-thread-4-1-2019\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/36079","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=36079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}