{"id":12434,"date":"2014-03-26T01:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12434"},"modified":"2014-03-26T01:23:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:23:43","slug":"open-thread3262012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/open-thread3262012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/26\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired after research and running errands, but not too much so to give a Republican a parade.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:36 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>George Carlin (R.I.P.) was famous for being hilarious but also for being in-your-face honest about the state of humanity and the planet. His version of the lyrics for "America the Beautiful" are pretty halting. <\/p>\n

\"0326carlin\"<\/p>\n

Sadly, this is way too true.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Pretty much any traditional media outlet has been starting every discussion about the upcoming election as a done deal:  the House will remain in Rethuglican’s greedy, dangerous, corporate-owned claws and the Senate may be lost to these miscreants as well, because that’s just what happens in an election year after the opposition party has won the White House.<\/p>\n

Bull shit.<\/p>\n

Plain and simple.  And, yes, this is a rant.<\/p>\n

Click through for a most excellent rant. Amen!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency\u2019s once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that \u2014 if approved by Congress \u2014 would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy advocates since its existence was leaked last year, according to senior administration officials.<\/p>\n

Under the proposal, they said, the N.S.A. would end its systematic collection of data about Americans\u2019 calling habits. The bulk records would stay in the hands of phone companies, which would not be required to retain the data for any longer than they normally would. And the N.S.A. could obtain specific records only with permission from a judge, using a new kind of court order.<\/p>\n

People are far too quick to blame Obama for doing his duty by enforcing the secret law Congress passed, which is his job as chief executive. He has wanted too long, however, to do the right thing. Now I bet the very members of Congress, who have publically blamed Obama for spying on Americans, will sabotage the proposed measures to end that practice.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0326Cartoon\"<\/font><\/p>\n

A national shame and tragedy.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired after research and running errands, but not too much so to give a Republican a parade. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:36 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: George Carlin (R.I.P.) was famous for being hilarious but […]<\/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-12434","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\/12434","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=12434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}