{"id":10727,"date":"2013-07-30T01:02:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2013-07-30T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:02:37","slug":"open-thread7302013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/open-thread7302013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/30\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing early for tomorrow day 46, it\u2019s 84\u00b0 at my desk, but it should not be quite as hot in the old days.  Yesterday our favorite Canadian taught us that it is possible to manage a fantasy football draft as effectively as GW Bush managed Katrina. \"Winking<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Yesterday it took me 5:27 (average 6:00).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Nation<\/a>: <\/font>Starting today, workers in seven cities will begin the largest fast food worker mobilization in US history. Staff at chains including McDonald\u2019s, Burger King, KFC and Wendy\u2019s will reportedly walk out in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City and Flint, Michigan.<\/p>\n

While the workers are striking, even though I is not in my city, I shall eat not food from those restaurants.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>As Detroit enters the federal bankruptcy process, the city is proposing a controversial plan for paring some of the $5.7 billion it owes in retiree health costs: pushing many of those too young to qualify for Medicare out of city-run coverage and into the new insurance markets that will soon be operating under the Obama health care law. <\/p>\n

On the one hand, Republicans hate ObamaCare almost as much as they love stealing the right to vote from black people. On the other hand, they are happy to stick the nation’s taxpayers with the city\u2019s obligations, while the 1% gobble up the city’s spoils.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are getting the boot from a major broadcaster. Politico\u2019s Dylan Byers reports<\/a> that Cumulus Media, the second biggest broadcaster in the country, is dropping Limbaugh and Hannity from its stations by the end of the year. <\/p>\n

Wooo Hooo!!!<\/strong> Next, get them kicked off Clear Channel. Yes they have a right to free speech. But we have a right not to pay for their microphones by patronizing the advertisers who support them.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"30Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

But they sure blew it with Bush!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing early for tomorrow day 46, it\u2019s 84\u00b0 at my desk, but it should not be quite as hot in the old days.  Yesterday our favorite Canadian taught us that it is possible to manage a fantasy football draft as effectively as GW Bush managed Katrina. Jig Zone Puzzle: Yesterday it took me 5:27 (average […]<\/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-10727","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\/10727","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=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}