{"id":36162,"date":"2019-04-09T10:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36162"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:37:23","slug":"open-thread-4-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/open-thread-4-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/9\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a tired day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 The remains of the tumor in my retina are still shrinking and still quite dead, so I am a cancer-free puddy tat.\u00a0 My eyes are still irritated, but not enough to keep me from working.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like being out of the loop for two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tofay&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 4:56).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-09-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=vcFV6eFJoAo\" 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>Pete Buttigieg Breaks Through The Political Noise<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vcFV6eFJoAo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That has to be one of the best slams of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian (the opposite of authentic Christian) hatred I have ever heard, I am very impressed. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmdivrgllf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Robert Reich: Socialism of the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pmdivrgllf4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, but I&#8217;ve been writing the same thing about the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, since 2009, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/how-goldman-sachs-made-3-4-billion-in-3-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that I can document<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/redaction-of-mueller-report-halted-as-barr-passes-out-from-sharpie-fumes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>The redaction of the Mueller report stalled on Monday after the Attorney General, William Barr, passed out from inhaling fumes from multiple Sharpie markers.<\/p>\n<p>Barr, who had been working around the clock to redact the report before its release, reportedly lost consciousness while trying to black out a seventy-four-page section detailing Donald Trump, Jr.,\u2019s contacts with more than three dozen Russian individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot use that many Sharpies, for hours on end, without proper ventilation,\u201d a Justice Department staffer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. \u201cThis was a disaster waiting to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The insentient Barr was rushed to Walter Reed medical center, where a grim-faced hospital spokesperson described his condition as \u201cBen Carson\u2013like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Thanks for the scoop Andy. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s accurate.\u00a0 <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\/04\/0409Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Note to Republican insurgency: wars have consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tired day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 The remains of the tumor in my retina are still shrinking and still quite dead, so I am a cancer-free puddy tat.\u00a0 My eyes are still irritated, but not enough to keep me from working.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like being out of the loop for two days. Jig <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/open-thread-4-9-2019\/' 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-36162","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\/36162","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=36162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}