{"id":54249,"date":"2024-04-06T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54249"},"modified":"2024-04-05T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T04:22:52","slug":"open-thread-april-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/06\/open-thread-april-6-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 6, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I found it refreshing for an earthquake to be newsworthy in some place other than California. (And, since there were no injries, the humor is a nice touch. &#8220;The Empire State Building&#8221;sent some messages via Xitter: &#8220;I am fine.&#8221; &#8220;I am still fine.&#8221; and then another &#8220;I am fine.&#8221;)\u00a0 Also I got my lost made of people whom I haven&#8217;t yet paid.\u00a0 There are seven of them, one of them whom I guess I saw twice, so there are eight charges.\u00a0 When new bills come in they should be easy to find.\u00a0 Also &#8211; the &#8220;Phone Call&#8221; Robert Hubbell prodived a summary for yesterday &#8211; Beau did a video on it\u00a0 It&#8217;s over 10 minutes, so I sdon&#8217;t wast to embed it.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s detailed enough i do wany to make it available.\u00a0 So, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pCa1pVQ8zbY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/reign-of-fear-secret-raids-sweep-russia-after-moscow-terror-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This really is madness<\/a>. Sadly it&#8217;s predictable (and in-character) madness. Russia is not going to be destroyed by migrants. But it very wwell may be destroyed by its own government.<\/p>\n<p>Very often I can&#8217;t find a particular story on &#8220;Law and Crime,&#8221; appaently because there&#8217;s so much crime that stories get pushed to the back. This time <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crime\/biden-diary-thief-must-serve-prison-time-not-just-probation-after-misleading-the-court-12-times-on-sentencing-delays-feds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I found the one I was looking for<\/a>. A value of $40.000.00 sounds like grand theft to me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCvmby1NDyo?si=MJOS4b_9GeKl_nmP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MoDB7EhBqg?si=zfCslnjL5hdVDtfY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/atlantis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/atlantis.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/atlantis-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/atlantis-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I found it refreshing for an earthquake to be newsworthy in some place other than California. (And, since there were no injries, the humor is a nice touch. &#8220;The Empire State Building&#8221;sent some messages via Xitter: &#8220;I am fine.&#8221; &#8220;I am still fine.&#8221; and then another &#8220;I am fine.&#8221;)\u00a0 Also I got my lost <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/06\/open-thread-april-6-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4553,4111,3723,5297,3711,3865,3745,3838,4395,3831],"class_list":["post-54249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-climate-change","tag-earthquake","tag-gop-crimes","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-womens-health","tag-world","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\/54249","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}