{"id":42962,"date":"2021-02-28T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=42962"},"modified":"2021-02-28T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:33:10","slug":"open-thread-2-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/open-thread-2-28-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 2\/28\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a painful and exhausted day, here in the CatBox.  The intake meeting with Providence Home Hospice was excellent, but it was long.  I was sitting up and putting pressure on my spine from around 10:30 AM when Wendy arrived until about 5:30 PM when the intake nurse left.  My meds will be delivered today.  They are putting me on 5 mg methadone pills every eight hours plus up to 10 – 15 mg Oxycodone every 3 – 6 hours as needed for pain.  No more patches.  They will give me a shower a week and I’ll get 1 – 2 from WWWendy.  I’ll receive a pants load of other services.  I really like the way they are handling it, but recovering from that appointment will take a few days.  Have a wonderful Sunday!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:36 (average 4:51).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump will use his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend to announce that he has won the 2024 Presidential election.<\/p>\n

According to leaked text from his cpac speech, Trump will claim that he won the 2024 election in a landslide and \u201ceverybody knows it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump will further state that any attempt to allege that the year 2024 has not arrived yet and is, in fact, not scheduled to occur until three years from now is \u201ca rigged hoax.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dang, Andy! We all knew Trump** would say that. Furthermore, we knew that every damn one of those idiotic CPUKE Sheeple would believe it.  RESIST the Republican Reich<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Though House Democrats in the end had the votes to assure final passage<\/a> of a sweeping Covid-19 relief package overnight\u2014securing approval with a final 219-212 tally\u2014it was the Republican Party membership in total lockstep, joined by two lonely members of the majority party, that voted to deny struggling American families, frontline workers, state governments, local communities, small businesses, and the nation’s schools and public health system nearly $2 trillion in urgent assistance to stabilize the economy, beat back the pandemic, and ensure solid footing for a robust recovery. <\/p>\n

The two Democrats who sided with the GOP were Rep. Jared Golden, who represents Maine’s 2nd District, and Rep. Kurt Shrader, who represents Oregon’s 5th District.  <\/p>\n

That one of these is an Oregon Congressional makes me want to scream. In 2020, I donated money to Shrader’s campaign in the general. He was running against Amy Ryan Courser, the epitome of everything about the Republican Reich that makes it evil. Amy is a Koch sucker. So I would support him again in the same circumstances, but before it comes to that, we need to primary his DINO ass out of there!  RESIST the Republican Reich<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>Simon & Garfunkel – El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (Audio)<\/p>\n