{"id":20618,"date":"2016-03-14T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20618"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:37:30","slug":"open-thread3142016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/open-thread3142016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/14\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m preparing to leave for a follow-up appointment with Megan, my Primary Care Physician.&#160; We\u2019ll be going over some test results, and I want to discuss pain management.&#160; My hands are way overworked, because they have to bear most of my weight every time I transfer to the toilet, haul myself to a sitting position in bed, use the walker, etc.&#160; It really plays hell with my arthritis.&#160; This is today\u2019s only article.&#160; Have an R<sup>2<\/sup> day!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:24 (average 6:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-03-14-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Notes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Denver Broncos have signed two QBs to fill the vacancies left by the Great Peyton and Brock Osweiller: Uncle Rico and Mark Sanchez.&#160; Neither can replace Peyton, but both are an improvement over Osweiller.&#160; Rico could actually start, because he has an arm like a cannon, but I don\u2019t know if he can manage a complex pro offense.&#160; When the holy light from the Ellipsoid Orb returns, may it shine upon my Broncos!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/action.mediamatters.org\/trump_phone_privilege\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>The news media coverage of Donald Trump has been abominable. Media outlets have treated him with kid gloves, obsessed over him, and given him free run of the airwaves for the entire news cycle.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even worse than that: The news media has given Donald Trump a special phone privilege, allowing him to call in to shows instead of forcing him to appear via satellite or in studio. As a result of this privilege, Trump can appear on more shows, and he can avoid being confronted by images and demonstrations showing his lies for what they are.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for it to stop. CBS refused to let Donald Trump call into its morning show. This is a start, but other networks and other shows are still letting Trump call in. Sign our petition, and tell news networks that it\u2019s time to take away Trump\u2019s special privilege.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LIZ9PXtLCO0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please click through and sign the petition. I did.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/14\/opinion\/trump-is-no-accident.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Establishment Republicans who are horrified by the rise of Donald Trump might want to take a minute to remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/6\/10929416\/republican-debate-marco-rubio\" target=\"_blank\">glitch<\/a> heard round the world \u2014 the talking point Marco Rubio couldn\u2019t stop repeating in a crucial debate, exposing him to devastating ridicule and sending his campaign into a death spiral.<\/p>\n<p>It went like this: \u201cLet\u2019s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. He knows exactly what he\u2019s doing.\u201d The clear, if ungrammatical, implication was that all the bad things Republicans claim have happened under President Obama \u2014 in particular, America\u2019s allegedly reduced stature in the world \u2014 are the result of a deliberate effort to weaken the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the establishment favorite for the G.O.P. nomination, the man Time magazine once put on its cover with the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,20130218,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Republican Savior,\u201d<\/a> was deliberately channeling the paranoid style in American politics. He was suggesting, albeit coyly, that a sitting president is a traitor.<\/p>\n<p>And now the establishment is shocked to see a candidate who basically plays the same game, but without the coyness, the overwhelming front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Why?<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that the road to Trumpism began long ago, when movement conservatives \u2014 ideological warriors of the right \u2014 took over the G.O.P. And it really was a complete takeover. Nobody seeking a career within the party dares to question any aspect of the dominating ideology, for fear of facing not just primary challenges but excommunication.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the rest of this excellent Paul Krugman editorial, I can summarize my response in one word: BINGO!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/watch-snl-perfectly-nailed-hillary-spoof-campaign-ad\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>SNL&#8217;s resident Hillary Clinton impersonator, Kate McKinnon, was in the house on Saturday night. The comic genius nailed Hillary Clinton in a spoof campaign ad for the ages.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/O3iBb1gvehI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"7\">FOMCPIMPROTFLMAO!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0314Cartoon\" 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=\"0314Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0314Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">\u03c0R round!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m preparing to leave for a follow-up appointment with Megan, my Primary Care Physician.&#160; We\u2019ll be going over some test results, and I want to discuss pain management.&#160; My hands are way overworked, because they have to bear most of my weight every time I transfer to the toilet, haul myself to a sitting position <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/open-thread3142016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-20618","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\/20618","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=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}