{"id":1724,"date":"2010-06-03T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T08:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2010-06-03T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T08:53:18","slug":"open-thread-632010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/open-thread-632010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 6\/3\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I kept up with comments and returning visits.  I also visited several blogs.  I should keep up today, but I\u2019ve been sitting on Avatar from Net-Flix for several days now.  I think I\u2019ll actually take the time to watch it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:28.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Fantasy Football<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

For an invitation to join our fantasy football league, Lefty Bloggers and Friends, email me at<\/font> tomcat1948@gmail.com<\/a>, using the email address you intent to use to sign up for the league. TC\u2019s Teabuggery Trashers can\u2019t wait to take you on! \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n

We now have four players.  There are only eight slots left.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>[Ted] Haggard announced that he would be opening a new, more inclusive church, St. James, that would be open to \u201cgay, straight, bi, tall, short\u201d members and would focus on \u201chelping other people going through the most difficult times of their lives.\u201d \u201cI just want to help people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked if his new church would take a position on homosexuality, Haggard said \u201cwe will take positions.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going to teach the bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse,\u201d \u201cbut I don\u2019t want to be a political activist.\u201d Haggard explained that the church won\u2019t advocate a specific public policy, but would instead \u201cencourage\u201d members to strive towards the ideal of biblical heterosexuality and monogamy.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Pastor Ted realized that there is no \u201ccure\u201d.  If he were authentic, Haggard would accept people as is.  As a Christian, I support people striving to fulfill their own identity.  On the other hand, who knows what he\u2019ll be doing below the water line in Ted\u2019s baptistery.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama extended Wednesday a wider range of benefits to the same-sex partners of eligible federal workers, including access to medical treatment, relocation assistance, credit unions and fitness centers. <\/p>\n

The move goes beyond a memo Obama signed last June, which permitted same-sex partners to use the government’s long-term-care insurance and other fringe benefits. The Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday that same-sex partners will become eligible for such insurance next month.<\/p>\n

This is how it should be.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I kept up with comments and returning visits.  I also visited several blogs.  I should keep up today, but I\u2019ve been sitting on Avatar from Net-Flix for several days now.  I think I\u2019ll actually take the time to watch it. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:28.  To do it, click here.  How […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","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=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}