{"id":10517,"date":"2013-06-26T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2013-06-26T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:29:53","slug":"open-thread6262013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/open-thread6262013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/26\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m so irate over the Supreme Court\u2019s murder of voting rights,  that I missed a sleep cycle.  I\u2019m writing early and hope to be awake enough to do more tomorrow (day 12).<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:57 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The defense [for Zimmerman] opened with a knock-knock joke about the difficulty of picking a jury for a case that stirred nationwide debate over racial profiling, vigilantism and Florida’s expansive laws on the use of deadly force.<\/p>\n

"Knock. Knock," said defense attorney Don West.<\/p>\n

"Who is there?"<\/p>\n

"George Zimmerman."<\/p>\n

"George Zimmerman who?"<\/p>\n

"All right, good. You’re on the jury."<\/p>\n

Maybe George Zimmerman and his attorney think it appropriate to make jokes about the murder trial, right in front of the teenage victim’s mother. I consider it most vile.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Theft in the Senate immigration bill<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

If immigration reform makes it out of the House, this stealth benefit theft that Republicans snuck in, knowing most would not have time to read the bill, and the absurd 100 mile vehicle search without a warrant zone, plus whatever other TEAbuggery House Republicans may include, must be stripped away in conference committee.<\/font><\/p>\n

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>The most remarkable thing about the Pentagon celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month Tuesday is how unremarkable it is.<\/p>\n

How many remember the extreme screaming from Republican bigots that this would destroy the military?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m so irate over the Supreme Court\u2019s murder of voting rights,  that I missed a sleep cycle.  I\u2019m writing early and hope to be awake enough to do more tomorrow (day 12). Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:57 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Huffington Post: […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/10517","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=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}