{"id":27112,"date":"2017-04-10T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27112"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:18:51","slug":"personal-update-4102017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/personal-update-4102017\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 4\/10\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My eye cancer was so expensive that I owed no taxes to either the Feds or the State.&#160; But I did have to pay my $35 Portland Arts Tax.&#160; Even people on Social Security alone have to pay this regressive boondoggle.&#160; We get a handful of outdoor concerts, while the rich get luxury venues that the rest of us cannot afford.&#160; I did get some sleep but not enough and am still quite ill.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:25 (average 5:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Me: At first glance the Fuhrer&#8217;s cruise missile attack on Syria seemed surprisingly measured and appropriate, but I saw through it quickly.&#160; Trump must have warned the Russians, because they pulled their assets and personnel from the airfield the day before.&#160; The Russians must have told the Syrians, because they removed most of their assets too.&#160; They were using the base to launch airstrikes the next day.&#160; So what did the raid accomplish?&#160; First, any time the press is focused on Syria, it is ignoring Trump&#8217;s collusion with Russian intelligence to steal the White House.&#160; Second, by creating the appearance of a fight with Russia over Syria, they are covering up quid pro quo.&#160; In short, it&#8217;s distraction.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0410Cartoon\" 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=\"0410Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0410Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eye cancer was so expensive that I owed no taxes to either the Feds or the State.&#160; But I did have to pay my $35 Portland Arts Tax.&#160; Even people on Social Security alone have to pay this regressive boondoggle.&#160; We get a handful of outdoor concerts, while the rich get luxury venues that <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/personal-update-4102017\/' 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-27112","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\/27112","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=27112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}