{"id":10122,"date":"2013-03-13T04:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2013-03-13T04:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:06:27","slug":"open-thread3132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/open-thread3132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/13\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still tired, but I\u2019m back.  Yesterday was supposed to be a volunteer day, but the prison is still closed for activities.  Turning 39 for the 27th time is just like it was the 26th time.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:31 (average 5:29).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration has decided that it will appeal to the Supreme Court a sweeping ruling<\/a> by an appeals court in January that President Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate in making three recess appointments<\/a> to the National Labor Relations Board last year.<\/p>\n

While the dispute grew out of a narrow and novel legal question \u2014 whether brief \u201cpro forma\u201d sessions by the Senate could prevent the president from making recess appointments during a lengthy winter break by lawmakers \u2014 the appeals court blew past that issue and called into question nearly two centuries of recess appointments by presidents of both parties. <\/p>\n

The three-judge panel of the appeals court in Washington ruled that presidents may bypass the confirmation process only during the sort of recess that occurs between formal sessions of Congress, rather than other breaks throughout the year. The gaps between formal sessions generally arise just once a year and sometimes \u2014 as in 2012, when the Senate had not formally adjourned before the next session began \u2014 are skipped entirely. <\/p>\n

This is judicial activism taken to extremes. None of the matters on which the court ruled were even before the court.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) was jubilant today after his newly unveiled budget plan picked up a key endorsement from the novelist Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n

It was a rare public utterance for the late Ms. Rand, who has been damned to eternal torment in Satan\u2019s lake of fire since 1982.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a budget I wish I had written,\u201d said Ms. Rand, pausing to scream as white-hot flames licked her face. \u201cPaul Ryan is a great man and I look forward to meeting him someday.\u201d <\/p>\n

To be sure, if that’s where she is, they will get to have a very long chat. \"Winking<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Star-Telegram<\/a>: <\/font>George Prescott Bush filed the paperwork Tuesday to run for Texas land commissioner next year, hoping to use a little-known but powerful post to continue his family’s political dynasty in one of the country’s most conservative states.<\/p>\n

That’s too high a post for a Republican let alone a Bush!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m still tired, but I\u2019m back.  Yesterday was supposed to be a volunteer day, but the prison is still closed for activities.  Turning 39 for the 27th time is just like it was the 26th time.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:31 (average 5:29).  To do it, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-145-id","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\/10122","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=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}