{"id":14856,"date":"2015-03-07T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14856"},"modified":"2015-03-07T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T17:57:05","slug":"open-thread372015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/open-thread372015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/7\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

My helper friend finally made it yesterday, and we shared six plus hours of heavy cleaning.  Needless to say, I\u2019m way pooped, but I\u2019m writing, because, at my age, I need more days than I have left.  On the plus side, today is definitely a kitty basking day with a forecast high of 70\u00b0.  I feel so sorry for my Eastern and Midwest friends.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 6:12 (average 8:28).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Oregonian<\/a>: <\/font>A sweeping voter registration bill that could add another 300,000 to Oregon’s voting rolls won final passage in the Oregon Senate on Thursday on a 17-13 vote and heads to Gov. Kate Brown for her promised signature.<\/p>\n

The so-called "New Motor Voter Bill" was promoted by Brown when she was secretary of state as a way to remove many of the barriers to voting, particularly for younger and poorer Oregonians who tend to move more often.<\/p>\n

Republicans, however, charged that using drivers’ license data to automatically register voters raised worries about ID theft and undermined the privacy of Oregonians. House Bill 2177<\/a> passed both chambers without a single Republican vote. The only Democrat to vote no was Sen. Betsy Johnson of Scappoose, who had cast the deciding vote against a similar measure that died in the 2013 session.<\/p>\n

When someone registers for a Driver’s License or an OID (same without driving, like I have), they are automatically registered to vote. This does not invalidate the many other ways Oregonians with no license or OID can register.  <\/font>Kudos to Governor Kate and the Oregon Democrats, except the DINO that needs to be primaried.  Oregon leads the way!<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In what could be a prelude to a Presidential run in 2016, on Friday Joe Biden released to the public both e-mails that he has written while serving as Vice-President for the past six years.<\/p>\n

Biden took pride in announcing that he had sent both messages from his official government e-mail address, adding, \u201cI have nothing to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minutes after the e-mails were released, the media pored over the treasure trove of materials, which offer a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into Biden\u2019s tenure as Vice-President.<\/p>\n

The first e-mail, written to President Obama in December of 2009, asks about the time and place of the White House holiday party.<\/p>\n

Dang Andy!! Joe released both of them?!!? ARGH!! Isn’t that TOO transparent? \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The coffers of Jeb Bush\u2019s not-quite-declared campaign for president are filling at such a rate that fund-raisers have reportedly been instructed not to ask megadonors to give more than $1 million each this quarter. The concern is seemliness \u2014 that acceptance of multimillion-dollar checks from deep-pocketed supporters could bolster the impression that Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, is in their debt, according to a Washington Post<\/a> report.<\/p>\n

Just a million?!!? Strike Three is smelling just like Little Lord Willard!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0307Cartoon\"<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

What has changed?  The Republican Party emplaced the racists.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My helper friend finally made it yesterday, and we shared six plus hours of heavy cleaning.  Needless to say, I\u2019m way pooped, but I\u2019m writing, because, at my age, I need more days than I have left.  On the plus side, today is definitely a kitty basking day with a forecast high of 70\u00b0.  I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14856","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\/14856","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=14856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}