{"id":26963,"date":"2017-03-27T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26963"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:56:22","slug":"open-thread-3272017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/open-thread-3272017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/27\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m still way south of healthy, but I want to try to post normally for a day.&#160; I know I won&#8217;t be able to do so tomorrow, because Wendy is coming a day and a half early to de-stink the TomCat, before she goes to Colorado.&#160; Wednesday is up in the air, as it&#8217;s a grocery delivery day.&#160; The pain is still quite severe, but it hurts as much or more in bed, as it does here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:35 (average 6:15).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-03-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did they 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=A_o83hPJALQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump&#8217;s Hard Power Budget | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/A_o83hPJALQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m four days late with this one, but late Sam is better than no Sam. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rfKu68qjKkI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump&#8217;s Great Health Care Negotiating<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rfKu68qjKkI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The art of the deal? I think he&#8217;s about the art of the steal!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-plan-to-finance-infrastructure\/2017\/03\/26\/41a795e2-10a5-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D-Ore.) has a long record of clever legislative proposals for financing infrastructure. His <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.transportation.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/defazio-introduces-investing-america-penny-progress-act-boost-investments-nation\" target=\"_blank\">latest<\/a>, announced Wednesday, is to increase the federal gas tax by up to 1.5 cents per year, with proceeds going to pay interest on an annual surface transportation bond issue of $17 billion through 2030. It would be the first hike in the gas tax, currently 18.4 cents per gallon, since 1993. The resulting dollars would pay for a 30 percent increase in spending from the Highway Trust Fund, above what\u2019s currently planned.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oregon leads the way. Of course it&#8217;s too rational for Republicans to pass. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/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\/0327Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0327Cartoon\" 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=\"0327Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0327Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still way south of healthy, but I want to try to post normally for a day.&#160; I know I won&#8217;t be able to do so tomorrow, because Wendy is coming a day and a half early to de-stink the TomCat, before she goes to Colorado.&#160; Wednesday is up in the air, as it&#8217;s a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/open-thread-3272017\/' 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-26963","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\/26963","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=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}