{"id":13574,"date":"2014-08-31T02:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2014-08-31T02:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T09:39:42","slug":"open-thread8312014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/open-thread8312014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/31\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 132.&#160; I don\u2019t feel well, and I just can&#8217;t seem to wake up today, so I need to stay down.&#160; This is tomorrow\u2019s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:34 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-08-31-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\/their-son-wasnt-a-popular-kid-imagine-their-surprise-when-this-happened-right-before-their-eyes\" target=\"_blank\">Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>I can&#8217;t wait until we&#8217;re ready to push the national conversation around bullying beyond &quot;stop being mean&quot; and into the realm of &quot;actually proactively be nice.&quot; Wouldn&#8217;t that be great? &quot;Do no harm&quot; is a good, bare-minimum message for the cool kids to hear, but &quot;go out of your way to make others smile&quot; is an even better one. It&#8217;s so great to see a bunch of football players who already get it. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Ejh_hb15Fc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Color those kids too cool for school!! Major Kudos!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/30\/business\/international\/European-economy-tries-to-find-its-way.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Six years after being struck by economic crisis, Europe is facing a fresh downturn, with few new ideas on the table for reigniting growth and deepening political divisions over the austerity policies that many blame for worsening the malaise.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I had a nickel for every time I said that austerity would screw Europe, I&#8217;d almost be a Bankster!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/herman-cain-obama-impeachment-plot\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Herman Cain took the conservative rhetoric of &quot;impeachment bait&quot; to the next level on Thursday by theorizing that President Obama is actually trying to get impeached in order to &quot;laugh at the Republicans.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Herman &quot;9-9-9&quot; Cain is crazy. Does he actually think we need an excuse to laugh at the Republicans?!!?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0831Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0831Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0831Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 132.&#160; I don\u2019t feel well, and I just can&#8217;t seem to wake up today, so I need to stay down.&#160; This is tomorrow\u2019s only article. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:34 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From Upworthy: I can&#8217;t wait <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/open-thread8312014\/' 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":[35,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-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\/13574","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=13574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}