{"id":1764,"date":"2010-06-06T02:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2010-06-06T02:26:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T09:26:37","slug":"open-thread-662010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/open-thread-662010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 6\/6\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I kept up with comments and answered and returning visits.  I don\u2019t know what today will bring, because I forgot the Portland Rose Festival Starlight Parade was last night.  My building is less than 25 feet from the parade route, so the sounds of drums and brass blasted me out of my prime sleeping time.  By the time it was over, it was time to begin research, so I\u2019m a little bleary-eyed.  On a positive note, yesterday\u2019s lead piece has generated over 25,000 views.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:58.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Jerusalem Post<\/a>: <\/font>The defense establishment is considering allowing future aid ships to sail into the Gaza Strip after their crews first agree to dock in Ashdod Port and undergo a military inspection to ensure that they are not carrying weaponry, officials said Saturday night.<\/p>\n

This is by no means a done deal, but if it goes through, I would consider it an acceptable solution, as long as all the relief supplies are delivered to these needy people in a timely manner.  This reasonable suggestion in no way absolves Israel\u2019s extreme right government of responsibility for recent crimes against humanity.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Blanche Lincoln is hoping to avoid becoming the third sitting senator to lose an intraparty fight this year, but even her closest allies acknowledge that her Democratic runoff race against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is a tossup.<\/p>\n

Tuesday is the day.  Should Lincoln win this, I would support her over the Republican, but I\u2019d much rather enthusiastically support Halter.  Obama was wrong to support Lincoln, but I\u2019d be willing to bet that his personal support was her price for not joining the final GOP filibuster that fell one vote short of killing HCR.<\/font><\/p>\n

From McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font>When Republicans gather this week in Dallas for their state convention, they’ll be joined by delegates from the new party in town \u2014 the Tea Party. <\/p>\n

For the first time, activists with conservative grassroots movements such as the Tea Party and the 912 Project will join the state GOP at its every-other-year convention and will have a role in hammering out a party platform, electing a leader to head the party and finding ways to work together to elect more Republicans in November.<\/p>\n

That platform should prove most disgusting<\/strike> racist<\/strike> vile<\/strike> foul<\/strike> interesting.<\/font><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the difference between the Teabaggers and the GOP?  Only deniability.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by Jeff Parker<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Have a great Sunday!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I kept up with comments and answered and returning visits.  I don\u2019t know what today will bring, because I forgot the Portland Rose Festival Starlight Parade was last night.  My building is less than 25 feet from the parade route, so the sounds of drums and brass blasted me out of my prime sleeping […]<\/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-1764","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\/1764","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=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}