{"id":36177,"date":"2019-04-11T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36177"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:26:33","slug":"open-thread-4-11-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/open-thread-4-11-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/11\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 The motor in my refrigerator is going bad, so CCC is swapping it today.\u00a0 WWWendy had hoped they could fix the old one.\u00a0 She had a bunch of stuff stored on top of it.\u00a0 I know it will be smaller than the old one and hope it isn&#8217;t too much smaller, as I just put groceries away yesterday.<\/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 3:41 (average 5:27).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-11-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=S1y1fTACiok\" 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>The Secret Explaining Mitch McConnell\u2019s Endless Enabling Of Trump<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/S1y1fTACiok\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bought Bitch Mitch may appear to be congenial, but that&#8217;s all an act. He&#8217;s a goose stepping, Koch sucking Republican that bends over and grabs his ankles whenever Putin&#8217;s Pervert barks at him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cRm9cPnVtcQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Julian Assange has been arrested<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cRm9cPnVtcQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Once he was a hero.\u00a0 Then he sold out.\u00a0 I hope that SOB finally gets comeuppance for his services to Trump and Russia in the election theft of 2016. On the other hand The Tangerine Traitor may give him a Cabinet post. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-names-lori-loughlin-education-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>The shakeup in the Trump Administration continued on Wednesday as Donald Trump named a fellow television personality, Lori Loughlin, to be the new Secretary of Education.<\/p>\n<p>In making the announcement, Trump praised Loughlin for her \u201cdisruptive approach\u201d to college admissions and expressed hope that she could bring the same brand of innovative thinking to the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>He brushed aside reporters\u2019 questions about the means by which Loughlin obtained college placements for her two daughters. \u201cNo one here has a problem with that,\u201d he said. \u201cI know Jared doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy, as horrid as Loughlin&#8217;s admission scam was, isn&#8217;t she an improvement over Barf Bag Betsy?\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\/2015\/04\/0411Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Republicans want to destroy it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 The motor in my refrigerator is going bad, so CCC is swapping it today.\u00a0 WWWendy had hoped they could fix the old one.\u00a0 She had a bunch of stuff stored on top of it.\u00a0 I know it will be smaller than the old one and hope it <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/open-thread-4-11-2019\/' 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-36177","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\/36177","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=36177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}