{"id":36170,"date":"2019-04-10T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36170"},"modified":"2019-04-10T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:57:39","slug":"open-thread-4-10-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/open-thread-4-10-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/10\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Providence Home Medical Equipment is coming to exchange a 6-pack of full O<sub>2<\/sub> tanks for my empties.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering my groceries, and I have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; This evening WWWendy is coming to destink the rancid TomCat.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been very muggy here, so I really need that shower.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:28 (average 5:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-10-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=KE617CmKDQk\" 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>Hearing with Trump&#8217;s Treasury Secretary goes off the rails<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KE617CmKDQk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Only a Republican could be such an asshole. He&#8217;s picking a fight to distract the hearing from its purpose. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2019\/4\/10\/18302233\/israel-election-results-benjamin-netanyahu-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox<\/a>: <\/font>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to hold on to power, winning what will be a record fifth term in office despite a bruising reelection fight.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary results from Israel\u2019s Tuesday election have Netanyahu\u2019s right-wing Likud party getting 35 seats out of a total 120 seats in the Knesset (Israel\u2019s parliament). While Likud didn\u2019t win an outright majority of seats, that\u2019s typical in Israeli elections.  <\/p>\n<p>Party leaders generally become prime ministers by cobbling together a parliamentary majority with the help of smaller parties. In this case, a group of smaller right-wing parties expected to back Netanyahu seems to have captured 65 seats, enough to give him a 10-seat majority over the rival center-left bloc (the exact numbers could change as the remaining two percent of votes are tallied).  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can only offer my sincere condolences to the people of Israel and Palestine, who love peace. Even worse for them, Butcher Bibi is now beholden to a Republican monster, who is even more evil than he is. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/4\/8\/1848746\/-Mike-Huckabee-declares-that-LGBTQ-people-are-the-greatest-threat-to-America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>There\u2019s a Huckabee that everyone is talking about today, and surprisingly, it\u2019s not White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It\u2019s actually her dad.  <\/p>\n<p>Remember former Arkansas governor and onetime Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee? He has some serious antics in his past. One thing that\u2019s consistent is that he really, really doesn\u2019t like the LGBTQ community. His feelings are so strong, he\u2019s declared that the queer community is the \u201cgreatest threat\u201d to America.  <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Christian Post [<em>pseudo-Christians delinked<\/em>], he bemoaned the (still limited) advances in rights and protections the LGBTQ community has gained in recent years. You know, how same-sex marriage is now recognized in every state, but you can still be fired for being openly transgender? That sort of thing.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Upchuckabee, like so many Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, does not need sex-change surgery. They need race-change surgery\u2026 to human. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0410Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Providence Home Medical Equipment is coming to exchange a 6-pack of full O2 tanks for my empties.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering my groceries, and I have to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; This evening WWWendy is coming to destink the rancid TomCat.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been very <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/open-thread-4-10-2019\/' 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-36170","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\/36170","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=36170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}