{"id":43029,"date":"2021-03-07T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=43029"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:22:09","slug":"open-thread-3-7-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/open-thread-3-7-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 3\/7\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a very tired day here in the cat box.\u00a0 For the last week I had a pants load of long appointments setting up my hospice services, and all that chair time exacerbated my back pain.\u00a0 My hospice nurse adjusted my methadone dose to my new level of pain.\u00a0 That was too high for my normal level of activity, causing all the side effects.\u00a0 I told her that’s what I thought, and she agreed to put me back to 10 mg methadone every eight hours.\u00a0 I’m feeling better.\u00a0 Here is my new schedule.\u00a0 This is what I said I would explain today.\u00a0 Monday is a Wendy day, usually in the evening.\u00a0 Thursday a shower aide comes around 9 AM.\u00a0 Then Store to Door delivers groceries between 11:30 AM and Noon.\u00a0 That will be a rough day.\u00a0 Saturday morning is a Wendy day.\u00a0 My hospice nurse will come every two weeks on Monday.\u00a0 Then I will have occasional visits from Jo, the chaplain.\u00a0 I like her.\u00a0 She is an authentic Christian and loves the definitions for Republicitis and Republicosis.\u00a0 So except for the initial confusion everything is doing pretty well.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it will take a few days for me to catch up on sleep.\u00a0 May you be well and truly blessed this Sunday!<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 4:41 (average 4:56).\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you fo?<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

…”It will be a Democratic Party Armageddon in 2022 if we sit here on our butts and say, ‘Oh, we’re sorry, we’re not as determined to get our agenda passed as Republicans were,'” Sen. Jeff Merkley, the Oregon Democrat spearheading filibuster reform efforts, told the Post. He’s right. With the Supreme Court seemingly ready to gut the remains of the Voting Rights Act<\/a> and 43 states considering some 253 voter restriction bills, it could be Armageddon for Democrats. If the elections reforms passed by the House don’t become law, Democratic voters will be blocked from the polls. If President Biden’s critical agenda to address the pandemic, economic inequality, climate change, immigration\u2014everything!\u2014is stymied, Democratic voters won’t want to go to the polls in 2022.<\/p>\n

Biden sure as hell recognizes that. That’s why the former longtime member of the Senate is open to filibuster reform<\/a>. “One thing that is nonnegotiable is him delivering for the American people,” Emmy Ruiz, the White House political director, told the Post. “The number one priority here is to get this agenda, this bold agenda, passed through Congress.” Another White House official said the “‘strategy is adjusting every single day,’ reiterating Biden\u2019s position that the filibuster is not sacrosanct while the agenda is.”…<\/p>\n

Jeff could not be more correct. Oregon leads the way!\u00a0 RESIST the Republican Reich<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Trump State Department official charged for attacking police in Capitol riot<\/p>\n