{"id":13786,"date":"2014-09-30T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:01:08","slug":"open-thread9302014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/open-thread9302014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/30\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 162<\/font>.  It\u2019s a busy week.  Today my helper friend is coming to help finish the major cleaning.  Tomorrow, I order groceries.  Wednesday is grocery delivery day, and Thursday, I have a doctor\u2019s appointment with a complete blood workup.  That means fasting and all day waiting for Lift vans.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:57 (average 4:43).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>One nominee proposed reclassifying single parenthood as child abuse. Another suggested that four \u201cblood moons\u201d would herald \u201cworld-changing, shaking-type events\u201d and said Islam was not a religion but a \u201ccomplete geopolitical structure\u201d unworthy of tax exemption. Still another labeled Hillary Rodham Clinton \u201cthe Antichrist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans successfully ended their primary season with minimal damage, but in at least a dozen safe or largely safe Republican House districts where more mild-mannered Republicans are exiting, their likely replacements will pull the party to the right, a move likely to increase division in an already polarized Congress.<\/p>\n

I predict an increase in the level of Republican criminal sedition in 2015.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Buzzfeed<\/a>: <\/font>27 Snapchats From Your Cat<\/p>\n

\"0930Catshot\"<\/p>\n

Here’s one I like. Click through for the other 26.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A party in disarray: the California GOP can’t find its ass with both hands.<\/font><\/p>\n

Click through for an interesting read, but I can help them find their ass. Here!<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0930Darrell_Issa\"<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"0930Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

Neither should we appease the Republican Party, which is just as dangerous.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 162.  It\u2019s a busy week.  Today my helper friend is coming to help finish the major cleaning.  Tomorrow, I order groceries.  Wednesday is grocery delivery day, and Thursday, I have a doctor\u2019s appointment with a complete blood workup.  That means fasting and all day waiting for Lift vans. Jig Zone […]<\/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-13786","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\/13786","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=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}