{"id":36277,"date":"2019-04-19T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36277"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:14:08","slug":"open-thread-4-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/open-thread-4-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy day here in the CatBox, and I feel very tired.&nbsp; It was hot and humid last night, exacerbated by the heat my O<sub>2<\/sub> concentrator produces.&nbsp; I slept very poorly.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:32 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-19-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=4teE3D4O5QE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Samantha Bee Gears Up For 2019&#8217;s Not WH Correspondents&#8217; Dinner<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4teE3D4O5QE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can&#8217;t wait to see that one. Sam will skewer the Orange Obstructer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2019\/04\/joe-biden-running-president\/587560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Atlantic<\/a>: <\/font>[J]oe Biden is running. The former vice president will make his candidacy official with a video announcement next Wednesday, according to people familiar with the discussions who have been told about them by top aides.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, he\u2019s actually made a decision. It\u2019s taken two years of back-and-forth, it\u2019ll be his third (or, depending on how you count, seventh) try for the White House, and many people thought he wouldn\u2019t do it, but the biggest factor reshaping the 2020 Democratic-primary field is locking into place.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m actually disappointed. I had hope that Joe would assume a Senior Advisor role. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/gina-haspel-heckler-auburn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Gina Haspel, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, made a rare public appearance on Thursday to give a nostalgia-laced recruiting pitch to students at Auburn University. But she was confronted instead by a heckler shouting about her role in torturing suspected militants in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.  <\/p>\n<p>Ms. Haspel was recounting the excitement she felt at the start of her own career when the heckling began. \u201cTell these young children, tell them who you tortured. You know their names \u2014 they\u2019re still in Guant\u00e1namo Bay,\u201d an unidentified man shouted.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a decrepit human being,\u201d he continued before being removed by security. \u201cThe only people you should be talking to is a prison guard in a jail cell.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the protester. Republican torturers belong in prison, not heading the CIA. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0419Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0419Cartoon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0419Cartoon2\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0419Cartoon2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0419Cartoon2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"704\" height=\"404\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day here in the CatBox, and I feel very tired.&nbsp; It was hot and humid last night, exacerbated by the heat my O2 concentrator produces.&nbsp; I slept very poorly.&nbsp; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:32 (average 5:20).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/open-thread-4-19-2019\/' 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-36277","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\/36277","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=36277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}