{"id":36355,"date":"2019-04-27T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36355"},"modified":"2019-04-27T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:06:05","slug":"open-thread-4-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/open-thread-4-27-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly, but muggy,&nbsp; day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Tomorrow I plan to post only a Personal Update, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it&#8217;s messed up.&nbsp; She might come at her normal early morning time, or she might be unable to come before mid-afternoon.&nbsp; My Broncos drafted Drew Locke, a QB from Ohio State.&nbsp; I hope you are enjoying your weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:30 (average 4:28).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-27-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=idrYqx0zQT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Donald Trump: Charlottesville Comments Were \u2018Answered Perfectly\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/idrYqx0zQT8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Could Trump be any more full of BS? His favorite general is Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RD7CnibMq20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>DUMB DOWN &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RD7CnibMq20\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s why so many Republican Sheeple voted for Drumpfenfarten. Sheeple are dumb. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/virginia-basketball-team-white-house-trump-e6534c95a91c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>On Friday evening, the University of Virginia men\u2019s basketball team announced that it would not be visiting the White House to celebrate its national championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received inquiries about a visit to the White House. With several players either pursuing pro opportunities or moving on from UVA, it would be difficult, if not impossible to get everyone back together,\u201d head coach Tony Bennett said in a statement. \u201cWe would have to respectfully decline an invitation.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The university is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a deadly white supremacist rally took place two summers ago. President Donald Trump infamously responded to that rally by saying that there had been \u201cvery fine people on both sides\u201d \u2014 drawing an equivalence between the group wielding torches and screaming \u201cJews will not replace us,\u201d and the people there protesting the hateful slogans.  <\/p>\n<p>While Bennett did not mention the president or politics in his statement, it was released just hours after Trump once again defended his comments on Charlottesville.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you believe the coach&#8217;s explanation, contact me to buy the glacier I own near New Orleans. <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\/0427Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d rather have that idiot than this idiot.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly, but muggy,&nbsp; day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Tomorrow I plan to post only a Personal Update, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it&#8217;s messed up.&nbsp; She might come at her normal early morning time, or she might be unable to come before mid-afternoon.&nbsp; My Broncos drafted <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/open-thread-4-27-2019\/' 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-36355","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\/36355","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=36355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}