{"id":10071,"date":"2013-03-03T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2013-03-03T04:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T12:56:25","slug":"open-thread332013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/03\/open-thread332013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/3\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have now survived the first day of the Republican Sequester, and my sky has not fallen\u2026 yet.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow, expect no more than an Open Thread, if that.&#160; I have two routine medical appointments.&#160; The first is my podiatrist cutting the recurring cyst from my foot, which he does quarterly.&#160; The second is my six month follow up with my urologist after my kidney stone.&#160; They will kill most of the day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:42 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-03-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/faith-in-humanity-restored-on-a-high-school-basketball-court-in-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED: On A High School Basketball Court In Texas<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"viddler-70d1d214\" height=\"349\" src=\"\/\/www.viddler.com\/embed\/70d1d214\/?f=1&amp;offset=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;secret=48017121&amp;disablebranding=0&amp;view_secret=48017121\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"545\" target=\"_blank\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can tell you for sure that we were not watching Congress. It&#8217;s nice to be able to share good news.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-republicans-california-20130303,0,4009291.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>As California Republicans gathered here for their weekend convention, it was difficult to recall when the group that produced Ronald Reagan had slumped so low.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s nicer to be able to share good news twice. \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.councilforthenationalinterest.org\/news\/israellobby\/item\/2487-lobby-to-get-israel-exempted-from-sequestration\" target=\"_blank\">Council for the National Interest<\/a>: <\/font>Douglas Bloomfield, who served as AIPAC\u2019s chief lobbyist for more than a decade, reports this week that the lobby intends to insist that the United States not include Israel\u2019s $3 billion grants package in the sequester that goes into effect today. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On a scale of one to ten, AIPUKE is just wrong! The US should NOT fully fund Israeli military atrocities, while taking food from our own hungry!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"3Cartoon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"3Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now survived the first day of the Republican Sequester, and my sky has not fallen\u2026 yet.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow, expect no more than an Open Thread, if that.&#160; I have two routine medical appointments.&#160; The first is my podiatrist cutting the recurring cyst from my foot, which he does quarterly.&#160; The <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/03\/open-thread332013\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-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\/10071","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=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}