{"id":35994,"date":"2019-03-19T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35994"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:07:16","slug":"open-thread-3-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/open-thread-3-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday&#8217;s dental appointment was most disappointing.&nbsp; The filling fell out of two teeth, because they had been decaying underneath them.&nbsp; With only three teeth in my mouth, none of which matched up, saving them would not be worth it, even if I could afford root canals.&nbsp; He had to dig out roots, so I&#8217;m hurting pretty bad, but the pain would be just as bad, were I doing something else.&nbsp; I took one of my Oxycodone to sleep last night, but doubt that I&#8217;ll need one tonight.&nbsp; One tooth left.&nbsp; Today is busy and unusual.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t be here for Store to Door tomorrow, so I ordered groceries from Safeway.com.&nbsp; They are delivering later this morning.&nbsp; WWWendy has to work late tomorrow night, so she&#8217;s coming tonight and Saturday this week.&nbsp; I have to leave for my appointment at 7:15 AM tomorrow, so my Personal Update will be late AM or early PM.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:24 (average 4:59).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=5l-254XnpkA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Elizabeth Warren: Get rid of the Electoral College<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5l-254XnpkA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with Liz on every point except the need for a Constitutional Amendment.&nbsp; It would take many years, and Republicans can block it easily. We need to take over enough states to pass the<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Popular Vote<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=402m57yFjTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: Why Unions Matter to You<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/402m57yFjTM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is wrong. The only union those Koch suckers support is the union between what&#8217;s left of your wealth and a billionaire. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/new-zealand-shooting-i-will-never-say-mosque-attackers-name-says-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Beast<\/a>:<\/font> New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to starve the Christchurch mosque attacker of the infamy he sought by refusing to ever say his name aloud. Appearing in parliament for the first time since Friday\u2019s shootings, which left 50 dead, Ardern opened with the Arabic greeting \u201cas-salaam Alaikum.\u201d She went on to say: \u201cHe sought many things from his act of terror but one was notoriety, that is why you will never hear me mention his name&#8230; He is a terrorist. He is a criminal. He is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless. And to others, I implore you: Speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them. He may have sought notoriety but we, in New Zealand, will give nothing\u2014not even his name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree. Refer to him using a title instead; call him &#8220;the Republican&#8221;. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0319Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s dental appointment was most disappointing.&nbsp; The filling fell out of two teeth, because they had been decaying underneath them.&nbsp; With only three teeth in my mouth, none of which matched up, saving them would not be worth it, even if I could afford root canals.&nbsp; He had to dig out roots, so I&#8217;m hurting <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/open-thread-3-19-2019\/' 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-35994","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\/35994","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=35994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}