{"id":39160,"date":"2020-03-09T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39160"},"modified":"2020-03-09T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:04:06","slug":"open-thread-3-9-3020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/open-thread-3-9-3020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/9\/3020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is my only article today, as I\u2019m going out with my friend in about 2.5 hours, and I still have to eat, dress and get ready to go.&nbsp; I heard from Dr. Nameless this morning on the PET Scan results.&nbsp; I did not know I have liver cancer, until I saw the PET Scan report. Dr. Nameless confirmed that and said that is their primary concern.&nbsp; I have esophageal cancer.&nbsp; You\u2019ve seen the pictures of the tumor.&nbsp; I also have nodules in both lungs.&nbsp; Dr. Nameless found that the cancer has metastasized to my spine at T-11.&nbsp; I thought that the terrible backaches I\u2019ve been having were from spending too much time in my power chair.&nbsp; The report gave no prognosis, so I\u2019ll have to wait until 3\/17.&nbsp; Dr. Nameless may correct my oversimplifications.&nbsp; In a word\u2026 ARGH!&nbsp; Oh God, it\u2019s Monday!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:29 (average 4:46).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-03-09-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\/2017\/03\/0309Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=OXYqjXSlwf8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">LET IT GO &#8211; A Parody<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OXYqjXSlwf8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks, Don! We on the left have been willing to coexist and compromise during my adult lifetime, and we still are. However, it is impossible to coexist and compromise with the Republican Reich, because they refuse to coexist and compromise with us.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=My9I8q-iJCI&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=99&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">I Am a Rock<br \/><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/My9I8q-iJCI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/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 color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my only article today, as I\u2019m going out with my friend in about 2.5 hours, and I still have to eat, dress and get ready to go.&nbsp; I heard from Dr. Nameless this morning on the PET Scan results.&nbsp; I did not know I have liver cancer, until I saw the PET Scan <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/open-thread-3-9-3020\/' 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":[3704,3709,3718,3731,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-39160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-parody","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\/39160","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=39160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}