{"id":26591,"date":"2017-03-04T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26591"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T21:36:28","slug":"open-thread-342017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/open-thread-342017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 3\/4\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running a bit behind schedule as I had several tasks this morning, and everything takes so long to do.&#160; For example, restocking my pill caddy with all my meds for one week, except Advair, just took me 45 minutes.&#160; But now I can orient myself to desphincterizing the White House and unreichifying everywhere else.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Please remember Lynn Squance in prayer or however you connect to the infinite.&#160; Today is her mother&#8217;s memorial service.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 5:10). To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-03-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; 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=wapgFW8GiNw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why Trump is Refusing to Confront Reality | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wapgFW8GiNw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our voices must continue to dissent as long as we have breath. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/merkley-calls-on-sessions-to-resign\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]<\/a>: <\/font>Oregon\u2019s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement regarding U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions\u2019 failure to disclose his 2016 contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say\/2017\/03\/01\/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.0c5ae73b96ea\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by the Washington Post last night<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Attorney General concealed from Congress during his testimony under oath the contacts he had with the Russian government during the campaign. An \u2018I don\u2019t recall\u2019 defense is wholly inadequate, especially for the nation\u2019s top law enforcement officer. The only way for him to restore the American people\u2019s faith in our Justice Department is to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest unraveling of the cover-up only reinforces the fact that there are many more questions than answers about the Trump campaign\u2019s knowledge of and possible coordination with Russian activities during the 2016 campaign. To get to the truth, we need a fully empowered, totally independent special prosecutor to thoroughly investigate this matter \u2014 as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Jeff! I worked to help him get that seat and have been proud of him ever since. Oregon Leads the way. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-pence-email-clinton-idUSKBN16B07P\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>A photo of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton glancing at a newspaper headline about U.S. Vice President Mike Pence using private email has gone viral on social media, with thousands of people commenting on it.<\/p>\n<p>Pence and others involved in the Republican presidential campaign last year criticized Clinton&#8217;s use of a private email server during her time as U.S. Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was on an airplane traveling from Boston to New York on Friday when a fellow passenger snapped a photo of her glancing down at Friday&#8217;s USA Today newspaper front page headline &quot;Pence used personal email in office&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0304Penceemail\" 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=\"0304Penceemail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0304Penceemail.jpg\" width=\"459\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On a hypocrisy scale of 1 &#8211; 10, Pence gets a 537. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0304Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0304Cartoon\" 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=\"0304Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0304Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running a bit behind schedule as I had several tasks this morning, and everything takes so long to do.&#160; For example, restocking my pill caddy with all my meds for one week, except Advair, just took me 45 minutes.&#160; But now I can orient myself to desphincterizing the White House and unreichifying everywhere else. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/open-thread-342017\/' 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-26591","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\/26591","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=26591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}