{"id":10996,"date":"2013-09-01T03:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2013-09-01T03:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T10:09:33","slug":"open-thread912013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/open-thread912013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/1\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 79, and although it\u2019s only 85\u00b0 at my desk at the moment, I\u2019m expecting a scorcher.  I did my cooking for the day at about 3 AM to avoid making it worse.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 4:44).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was found not guilty of second degree murder in the slaying of teenager Trayvon Martin, told ABC News<\/a> that she does not know if she will stay married to her husband. In an interview with reporter Christi O\u2019Connor<\/a>, Shellie Zimmerman said that she will have to think carefully about whether she plans to stay married to George Zimmerman, and that she had walked out on him after a particularly nasty argument on the night before he shot Martin.<\/p>\n

Now we know the reason for some of Zimmerman’s rage, when he murdered Martin.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>For the past two years, Republican senators facing re-election have very deliberately spent millions of dollars, hired multiple consultants and cast scores of conservative votes with one goal in mind: avoiding the embarrassing primary conflagrations that befell their party in 2010 and 2012 and cost Republicans a chance at taking back the Senate. <\/p>\n

It has not worked. Despite their careful efforts, some of the best-known and most influential Republicans in the Senate have been unable to shake threats from the right and have attracted rivals who portray these lawmakers as a central part of the problem in Washington. <\/p>\n

In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, the party\u2019s Senate leader, is fending off a charismatic and wealthy conservative challenger. In South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, one of the Senate\u2019s most reliably conservative voices on foreign policy, is being painted by primary opponents as a veritable clone of President Obama. <\/p>\n

I’ll laugh, if a Bagger beats Bought Bitch Mitch!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Blue Oregon<\/a>: In honor of Labor Day, our colleagues at the <\/font>Economic Policy Institute<\/a><\/font> made a little tool \u2014 based on their project <\/font>inequality.is<\/a><\/font><\/font> \u2014 that shows how much you would be making if wages had kept pace with productivity, a key indicator of an economy working for all.<\/font><\/p>\n

Click through for the picture link to the tool. When I retired, I was making about 63% of what I should have been.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"1Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

…with support from Prescott Bush and America’s 0.1%.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 79, and although it\u2019s only 85\u00b0 at my desk at the moment, I\u2019m expecting a scorcher.  I did my cooking for the day at about 3 AM to avoid making it worse. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 4:44).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? […]<\/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-10996","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\/10996","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=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}