{"id":26984,"date":"2017-03-30T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26984"},"modified":"2017-03-30T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:36:16","slug":"open-thread-3302017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/open-thread-3302017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/30\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I ran out of meds yesterday.&#160; Today some of the congestion and coughing has returned, so I called Megan&#8217;s office to see if they will refill my Prednisone prescription.&#160; My concern is that the coughing will exacerbate the muscular damage.&#160; I still have quite a bit of pain in my ribs, and want to keep it tolerable.&#160; Tomorrow morning I have a home visit coming from the agency that pays for around 20% of the care I get from Wendy.&#160; I am more disabled than I was a year ago, because of my eyes, so I&#8217;m not worried about losing it, until Republican budget cuts reach the state level.&#160; Then on Saturday, Carrie will be here filling in for Wendy, instead of Sunday, so my uploads will be abbreviated until Sunday.&#160; I&#8217;ve decided not to do a Monthly Report for March.&#160; First we do not have a full month&#8217;s data.&#160; Second, after everything, I don&#8217;t have enough gas left in my tank to design as new report format for our Analytics.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 5:04).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-03-30-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=BcaNIJetarU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Could Donald Trump Pass a Sanity Test? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BcaNIJetarU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why?&#160; In a single word, the Lemon Lunatic is a Republican. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nunes-says-he-held-russia-hearings-alone-in-his-apartment-and-they-went-great\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Representative Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Wednesday that he just spent several days alone in his apartment holding hearings on President Donald J. Trump\u2019s ties to Russia and that those hearings \u201cwent really great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving concluded several days of hearings on my own in my apartment, I am one hundred per cent satisfied that the President had no involvement with the Russians,\u201d Nunes said. \u201cNow it\u2019s time to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Nunes would not reveal who testified at the hearings in his apartment, he called their testimony \u201ccredible and productive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, if he said that, it would not surprise me at all. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Schiff presses for public hearing for Yates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about resistance by Chairman Devin Nunes to hear from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and the priorities of Democrats on the committee. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_eschiff2_170329\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with him. The investigation should also contain looking at the quid pro quo, first by the Trump campaign and now by the Trump Reich to compensate Russia for their cooperation. I also think Sally Yates testimony may be critical. <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\/0330Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0330Cartoon\" 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=\"0330Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0330Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran out of meds yesterday.&#160; Today some of the congestion and coughing has returned, so I called Megan&#8217;s office to see if they will refill my Prednisone prescription.&#160; My concern is that the coughing will exacerbate the muscular damage.&#160; I still have quite a bit of pain in my ribs, and want to keep <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/30\/open-thread-3302017\/' 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-26984","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\/26984","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=26984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}