{"id":39164,"date":"2020-03-10T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39164"},"modified":"2020-03-10T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:57:54","slug":"open-thread-3-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/open-thread-3-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/10\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a difficult day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I get topo impatient to spend 90 \u2013 120 minutes eating a meal, and I eat too much too fast.&nbsp; As a result, it took me 210 minutes to eat breakfast, half of it ended up in the sink, and I have severe heartburn.&nbsp; On the plus side, I enjoyed my time with my friend yesterday.&nbsp; For news on my cancer, see yesterday\u2019s Open thread, if you missed it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:24 (average 4:31).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-03-10-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\/2019\/03\/0310Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/cruise-ship-passengers-demand-to-be-housed-at-mar-a-lago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Irate passengers who have been stranded onboard the Grand Princess cruise ship are demanding to be housed at Mar-a-Lago, the passengers confirmed on Monday.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Frustrated by the Trump Administration\u2019s delay in devising a plan to enable them to disembark, the nearly three thousand coronavirus-exposed passengers said that it was \u201conly fair\u201d that Trump welcome them to his Palm Beach home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump keeps on saying that he\u2019s not worried about coronavirus,\u201d the passengers\u2019 spokesman said. \u201cThen he shouldn\u2019t object to three thousand of us living with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I&#8217;ll agree under two conditions. First, only people who have tested positive should go. Second, if Trump* is not there, they should be taken to wherever he is.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JytJ8lf8aOQ\" 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 color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: Will Donald Trump Get Reelected?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JytJ8lf8aOQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sadly, the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. There&#8217;s nothing too dishonest, despicable, or deplorable for the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, and their Russian allies, to do to keep their criminal Fuhrer Trump* in power.&nbsp; We must unite behind whoever wins the Democratic nomination and flush the Fascist Republican Reich to oblivion!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HaRacIzZSPo&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=101&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Ode to Billie Joe &#8211; Bobbie Gentry (BBC Live 1968)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HaRacIzZSPo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/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><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a difficult day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I get topo impatient to spend 90 \u2013 120 minutes eating a meal, and I eat too much too fast.&nbsp; As a result, it took me 210 minutes to eat breakfast, half of it ended up in the sink, and I have severe heartburn.&nbsp; On the plus <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/open-thread-3-10-2020\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[3708,3704,3709,3718,3743,3705,3792,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-39164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-republican-reich","tag-resist","tag-robert-reich","tag-satire","tag-video","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\/39164","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=39164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}