{"id":39149,"date":"2020-03-07T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39149"},"modified":"2020-03-07T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:40:40","slug":"open-thread-3-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/open-thread-3-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/7\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a hectic day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I had trouble holding my supper down last night, but it was my fault.&nbsp; I became distracted by the news on TV and ate too much too fast.&nbsp; That will do me in every time.&nbsp; I received the results from my PET Scan last night, but I could not understand a damn thing about what they mean.&nbsp; Therefore I sent them to Dr. Nameless in email, and hopefully he can tell us more.&nbsp; Please expect short days from me on both Sunday and Monday.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, with all the attendant de-stinking and chores.&nbsp; On Monday, I\u2019m going out for a drive with Sandi, a good friend for 35 years with whom I have made hundreds of trips to the prison for volunteer work.&nbsp; She is also a cancer survivor.&nbsp; I should be fully back in the saddle on Tuesday.&nbsp; Have a wonderful weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:15 (average 4:56).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-03-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/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\/0307Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They are building a National Socialist Reich to do that very thing!<\/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=2cBZ77m9dHs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Trump Praises Coronavirus Response As Cases Rack Up And Markets Spiral<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2cBZ77m9dHs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Criminal Fuhrer* Trump and the Republican Reich don&#8217;t give a damn about the 3,500 Americans trapped on that ship. He only cares about keeping his \u201cnumbers\u201d low. Earth to asshole\u2026 come in! Your numbers are going way up, anyway. But he told the truth about one thing: that he should have become a medical expert instead of running for President. AMEN! If only he had done ANYTHING, other than running for President!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/susan-collins-unable-to-decide-whether-to-wash-hands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, has not decided whether she will wash her hands in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Collins confirmed on Friday.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at the Capitol, Collins said that she was \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d by the behavior of the covid-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe behavior of the coronavirus is, to me, profoundly disturbing,\u201d she said. \u201cWhether it rises to the level of something I should respond to by washing my hands is a question I am devoting a great deal of thought to right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy, I have an idea! Until she makes up her mind, she should go live on the cruise ship her criminal Fuhrer Trump* refuses to rescue.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UiKcd7yPLdU&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=97&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Three Dog Night &#8220;One&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UiKcd7yPLdU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a hectic day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I had trouble holding my supper down last night, but it was my fault.&nbsp; I became distracted by the news on TV and ate too much too fast.&nbsp; That will do me in every time.&nbsp; I received the results from my PET Scan last night, but I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/open-thread-3-7-2020\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[3708,3704,3913,3746,3721,3709,3718,3910,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-39149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-lies","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-public-health","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-video","category-35-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\/39149","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=39149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}