{"id":26949,"date":"2017-03-25T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26949"},"modified":"2017-03-25T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:58:11","slug":"open-thread-3252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/25\/open-thread-3252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my doctor gave me Prednisone and too little Oxycodone.&#160; I&#8217;m still quite ill, but the Prednisone seems to be helping.&#160; I slept six hours last night.&#160; I&#8217;m enclosing video&#8217;s today, because tomorrow is a Wendy day, and she is bringing her sister.&#160; Wendy will be in Colorado next weekend to help a life-long friend move to Portland.&#160; Her sister will be filling in for her then, and tomorrow we teach her how, so I&#8217;ll be busy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:07 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-03-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:&#160; <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=juvYqEF3BzA\" target=\"_blank\">The Truth Of Trump\u2019s \u201cI Alone Can Fix It\u201d Canard<\/a> | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/juvYqEF3BzA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The magic stone under the Fuhrer&#8217;s skin is a turd. His followers are deplorable, not because they are evil, but because they are so gullible that they think and do what they are told. For years, I have called that Republican trait, InsaniTEA. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lZvaTrClzio\" target=\"_blank\">Monologue: Repeal and Disgrace<\/a> | Real Time with Bill Maher<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lZvaTrClzio?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have been quite irritated by the flood of SPAM from left wing organizations taking credit for defeating RepubliCare and telling me to give them money because of it. What shameless BS! Republicans defeated it themselves. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=35T9jC_MASQ\" target=\"_blank\">New Rule: Trump and the Long Con<\/a> | Real Time with Bill Maher<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/35T9jC_MASQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Spot on! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0325Cartoon\" 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=\"0325Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0325Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my doctor gave me Prednisone and too little Oxycodone.&#160; I&#8217;m still quite ill, but the Prednisone seems to be helping.&#160; I slept six hours last night.&#160; I&#8217;m enclosing video&#8217;s today, because tomorrow is a Wendy day, and she is bringing her sister.&#160; Wendy will be in Colorado next weekend to help a life-long friend <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/25\/open-thread-3252017\/' 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-26949","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\/26949","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=26949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}