{"id":1833,"date":"2010-06-12T01:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2010-06-12T01:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T08:31:28","slug":"open-thread-6122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/open-thread-6122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 6\/12\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I got tied up.  I did some more work on the volunteer website.  I was on the phone for about three hours.  I had two visits of about an hour each.  I did reply to comments, but had no time to return visits.  I had a bad air day and could not sleep for coughing, so how I do keeping up today will depend on how much sleep I can get in the meantime.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:15.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

To join our fantasy football league,<\/font> click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>In an interview that aired Friday on MSNBC, Chuck Todd asked Pelosi if there was a statute of limitations on placing responsibility on President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

"Well, it runs out when the problems go away," Pelosi replied.<\/p>\n

In a poll at the old Politics Plus in early 2008, before the economy crashed, the majority of voters agreed that recovering from the damage Bush and the GOP had done to our nation would take from 25 to 50 years.  I voted 50 \u2013 100.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A new organization has been formed by the US religious right to attack a program that hasn’t yet reached pilot stage. JC, a Comedy Central cartoon about Jesus trying to live a normal life in New York, does not have a completed script, but Citizens Against Religious Bigotry (Carb) are calling on advertisers to force the channel to abort it.<\/p>\n

As a Christian, I look forward to it and think it will be hilarious.  But I think I know how the last episode will end.  The GOP will crucify him.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson frequently stresses the importance of monogamous heterosexual relationships and is happy to offer his viewers advice on how to maintain them. As Media Matters documents, Robertson fielded a question on yesterday\u2019s edition of the 700 Club from a woman who was concerned that her husband frequently flirts with \u201cother women he finds attractive.\u201d Naturally, Robertson blamed the wife, advising her to \u201cmake yourself as attractive as possible,\u201d and to not \u201chassle him about it,\u201d lest she \u201cdrive him away\u201d.<\/p>\n

OK, Lisa.  Does this little tin god deserve the Mom Voice<\/em><\/strong>?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: from http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

\"12matson\"<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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

Yesterday I got tied up.  I did some more work on the volunteer website.  I was on the phone for about three hours.  I had two visits of about an hour each.  I did reply to comments, but had no time to return visits.  I had a bad air day and could not sleep for […]<\/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-1833","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\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}