{"id":10566,"date":"2013-07-05T01:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2013-07-05T01:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T08:01:49","slug":"open-thread752013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/open-thread752013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/5\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing early for Day 21.  The temperature at my desk is 82\u00b0, and that feels almost chilly, but I\u2019m still not up to that Monthly Report yet.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:53 (average 6:11).  To do it, click here<\/a>,  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Egypt\u2019s military officers removed the country\u2019s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist. <\/p>\n

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is their equivalent of our Tea Party Similarly they promised jobs, but once in power focused on a restrictive social agenda that only their own faction wanted, not allowing other factions any input. Fortunately the military appears to have no desire to wield political power, long term.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Despicable fee<\/p>\n

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

Bend over and grab your ankles, folks. Here comes a case of Bankster Butt!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>A North Carolina state senator on Wednesday blasted fellow lawmakers for attaching draconian anti-abortion provisions to an anti-Sharia law bill and insisted that "the North Carolina Republican General Assembly" is "what we have to fear."<\/p>\n

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There is nothing scary about authentic Islam or authentic Christianity. Followers of both coexist in peace with mutual respect.  Extremists are another matter. There is no functional difference between the Taliban, Hezbollah, or Al Qaeda and Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m writing early for Day 21.  The temperature at my desk is 82\u00b0, and that feels almost chilly, but I\u2019m still not up to that Monthly Report yet. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:53 (average 6:11).  To do it, click here,  How did you do? Short Takes: From NY Times: Egypt\u2019s military officers removed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","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=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}