{"id":13341,"date":"2014-07-31T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2014-07-31T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T07:03:11","slug":"open-thread7312014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/open-thread7312014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/31\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 101.&#160; Store to door just delivered groceries and I have finished putting them away.&#160; I\u2019m tired, but not to tired to write.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:43 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-07-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/last-year-the-world-spent-98-trillion-on-this-activity-care-to-guess\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Check out this progress report on world peace. The news is not all good, but, still, there&#8217;s a silver lining.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcAAbT80XS8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s hard to fond a more worthy investment than peace. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/#\/page\/indexes\/global-peace-index\" target=\"_blank\">that link<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/07\/28\/1317459\/-Are-Republicans-Backed-By-China-House-Republicans-Block-Critical-Make-It-In-America-Bill\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Far-right groups said that the American government securing necessary materials for American companies to manufacture is &quot;interference with the free market.&quot; Seriously, are they funded by China?<\/p>\n<p>Last week one more example of Republican obstruction occurred \u2013 blockage of an important &quot;Make It In America&quot; bill \u2013 and one more time not a single corporate media outlet reported it.<\/p>\n<p>The House Republican leadership last Tuesday blocked a bill to secure for American companies critical minerals used in the production of energy-efficient products, renewable energy systems, electronics and other technologies. The result is companies \u2013 and the Defense Department \u2013 continue to be forced to turn to China to make or obtain critical electronics components.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To understand the full extent of why Republicans have committed sedition here, you need to click through and read the while article. Please do. It&#8217;s important!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blreeUtgLEU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Rachel Maddow: The Kids Are Not From Mexico! <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/blreeUtgLEU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This may help explain why some people vote Republican. They are stupid.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0731Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0731Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0731Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 101.&#160; Store to door just delivered groceries and I have finished putting them away.&#160; I\u2019m tired, but not to tired to write. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:43 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: Check out this progress report on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/open-thread7312014\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-13341","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\/13341","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=13341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}