{"id":20356,"date":"2016-03-04T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2016-03-04T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:45:01","slug":"open-thread342016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/open-thread342016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/4\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m starting this article before leaving for my first outpatient PT\/OT session.  Denizens of Care2, the e-card address book there is broken, so I’ll need to send regular messages tomorrow, unless they fix it.  I’ll finish this paragraph, when I return.  I’m back.  I like my new PT\/OT, Courtney.  In my sick delirium, I had entered the appointment wring and I was scheduled for NEXT Friday.  She was very kind to squeeze me in today, instead.  She gave me a bunch of new exercises to do, wearing George in bed.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 2:57 (average 5:10).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: I<\/font>t's just hard to know where to start other than to say that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are this guy's heroes, so he's likely a glimpse of where the GOP is headed. Take it away, Texas Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. Rick Perry<\/a>’s sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton’s penis<\/a>, and insisting that members of the Bush family should be in jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also found time to call Hillary Clinton an “angry bull dyke<\/a>” and accuse his county vice chair of betraying the values of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Robert Morrow won the Travis County GOP chairmanship Tuesday with 54 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

Another day, another average Republican voter.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Democrats on Thursday unleashed a furious assault on Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican and Judiciary Committee chairman who has become the face of his party’s refusal to hold a hearing on President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Grassley listened to his critics in the Senate chamber, a potentially strong Democratic challenger unexpectedly stepped forward in Iowa to run against him. It was another sign of increasing pressure on Mr. Grassley, whose bid for a seventh term had been all but assured before the Supreme Court vacancy arose.<\/p>\n

On the Senate floor, several Democrats berated Mr. Grassley for a full hour as Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, has done for much of the last two weeks. “This is obstruction and chaos,” Mr. Reid said…<\/p>\n

…Then came word that Patty Judge, 72, a former Iowa lieutenant governor and state agriculture secretary, will seek the Democratic senate nomination to challenge Mr. Grassley.<\/p>\n

Go Patty Go!! Snake in the Grassley has been around far too long!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>It was very important for Donald Trump to say on national TV that he does not have a small penis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marco Rubio earlier in the week made mention of Trump's small hands. This is a sore subject for Trump.<\/p>\n

During the debate, the Donald wanted to make sure every one knows or believes he is in no way under-endowed in the manhood department:<\/p>\n

"He referred to my hands, if they're small, something else must be small," Trump said. "I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee that."<\/p>\n

In the coming days, look for Melania Trump to back up that assertion on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

This is only the first of six listed bizarre moments from the latest Clown Car Destruction Derby. Click through for the other five, if you dare.  PS – Hateful Hairball has nothing that even approaches t5he sheer magnificence  of my kitty dingles!!  \"Winking\"Cat<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I’m starting this article before leaving for my first outpatient PT\/OT session.  Denizens of Care2, the e-card address book there is broken, so I’ll need to send regular messages tomorrow, unless they fix it.  I’ll finish this paragraph, when I return.  I’m back.  I like my new PT\/OT, Courtney.  In my sick delirium, I had […]<\/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-20356","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\/20356","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=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}