{"id":10804,"date":"2013-08-07T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2013-08-07T01:48:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:48:17","slug":"open-thread872013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/open-thread872013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/7\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing for tomorrow, day 54, I\u2019m quite drained.  It reached 101\u00b0 at my desk yesterday.  That has dropped to 86\u00b0, but the sun just hit the \u201cbreezeway\u201d so it will skyrocket.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:01 (average 5:41).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do? (Dang dawg<\/em>!) \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>:<\/font>As House Republicans began their five-week summer vacation, their leader, House Speaker John Boehner, urged them to rest up for \u201cthe many symbolic and meaningless votes that lie ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Boehner, while congratulating his colleagues on having voted to repeal Obamacare forty times, reminded his fellow-Republicans that their work is \u201cfar from over.\u201d<\/p>\n

This really is humor and satire. REALLY<\/strong>! You don’t believe me? That\u2019s OK.  On this, I wouldn’t either!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who captured the national spotlight with an 11-hour filibuster<\/a> against restricting abortion rights, turned up in Washington on Monday with the news that she was considering a run for governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: either my State Senate seat or the governor,\u201d Ms. Davis said after a luncheon and speech at the National Press Club. <\/p>\n

This could be Texas’ only opportunity in the near future to put forward a Democrat with a high enough profile to have a good shot at winning. Because the whole state votes for Governor, Republicans can’t Gerrymander the job.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Debunktion Junction<\/p>\n

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

Cantor earned another BS in Billshitology. Elections like Detroit’s are what Republicans plan for us all, one’s that are for show only.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Writing for tomorrow, day 54, I\u2019m quite drained.  It reached 101\u00b0 at my desk yesterday.  That has dropped to 86\u00b0, but the sun just hit the \u201cbreezeway\u201d so it will skyrocket. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:01 (average 5:41).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? (Dang dawg!) \ud83d\ude09 Short Takes: From […]<\/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-10804","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\/10804","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=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}