{"id":54159,"date":"2024-03-19T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54159"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:28:26","slug":"open-thread-march-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/19\/open-thread-march-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 19, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got a couple of my hospital stay bills paid (with my HRA credit\/debit card.) I haven&#8217;t paid them all because I haven&#8217;t gotten them yet &#8211; the hospital got my address wrong and then passed that on to everyone. I have like 8 MSNs (they used to be called EOBs), many have more than one provider, and one of them has so many providers it&#8217;s 14 pages. But the combination of Medicare and an HRA is a real blessing. Incidentally, today is Saint Joseph&#8217;s Day. Just two days after St. Patrick&#8217;s, and coming asthey do in the middle of Lent, they make a nice little break from Lenten fasting &#8230; if anyone is still doing that.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hubbell provided a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/factba.se\/biden\/transcript\/joe-biden-remarks-gridiron-dinner-washington-march-16-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript of President Biden&#8217;s Gridiron speech<\/a>. Unlike the White Hose Correspondents&#8217; Dinner, video is never released from the Gridiron, so this is all we&#8217;ll get. FactBase, who posted it, attempts to provide reactions along the way. Remember, when you see negative reactions, that everyone there is a journalist. My reaction is very positive to thse remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n is in some ways more dangerous than Trump**. Unlike Trump**, he knows what he is doing and he is good at it. The meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/march-17-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> writes about was blatant subversion, and a public slap in the face to the United States (though it wpuld have been more public had the media bothered to notice it.)<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2023\/08\/30\/carlotta-walls-lanier-little-rock-nine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slice of Arkansas women&#8217;s history<\/a>, through the telling by one woman who was there (and is now in Colorado.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HoJEIaFp7iE?si=N06XMKHfTJCOGCGb\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bGsN7jzp5DE?si=AsN0B_K0ery7JC0o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/leprechaun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/leprechaun.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/leprechaun-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/leprechaun-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got a couple of my hospital stay bills paid (with my HRA credit\/debit card.) I haven&#8217;t paid them all because I haven&#8217;t gotten them yet &#8211; the hospital got my address wrong and then passed that on to everyone. I have like 8 MSNs (they used to be called EOBs), many have more <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/19\/open-thread-march-19-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4837,3711,5730,3725,5731,3760,4873,3831],"class_list":["post-54159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-black-history","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gridiron","tag-holiday","tag-hungary","tag-joe-biden","tag-womens-history","tag-world","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\/54159","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}