{"id":2090,"date":"2010-07-01T03:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2010-07-01T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T19:38:25","slug":"open-thread-612010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/open-thread-612010-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/1\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I kept current with replying to comments and returning visits.\u00a0 The monthly report will be out tomorrow, after my stats update.\u00a0 I received some good news yesterday.\u00a0 I have been accepted to continue my volunteer work co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners with the new service provider that will be taking over the group I was helping.\u00a0 My attempt at a partial OS reinstall went south.\u00a0 My Windows 7 disk was an upgrade disk that I received as part of the computer sale.\u00a0 It turns out Microsoft had an unannounced security trap built in to prevent its use on multiple computers.\u00a0 The upgrade disk is a DVD-RW.\u00a0 Once it has been used to install Windows 7, the next time it\u2019s put into a DVD drive, it formats itself.\u00a0 You don\u2019t even want to know how pissed off I am!\u00a0 I hope to keep current today, but I have a call from Microsoft Support scheduled this morning, and I don\u2019t know how long it will take.\u00a0 All that yelling could also effect my COPD. \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:22.\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

From Think Progress<\/a>: [Michelle Bachmann] <\/span>\u201dWell, President Obama is trying to bind the United States into a global economy where all of our nations come together in a global economy. I don\u2019t want the United States to be in a global economy where, where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earth to Batshit Bimbo\u2026 Earth to Batshit Bimbo\u2026 Hello?\u00a0 Is anyone there?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t that goose-stepping fool realize that the US has been in a global economy for years?<\/span><\/p>\n

From The Hill<\/a>: <\/span>The House and Senate should stay in session until they can pass an extension of unemployment insurance, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Brown urged leaders to keep Congress in session and eat into the holiday weekend and next week’s recess, if necessary, to pass a long-delayed extension of benefits and tax cuts that’s stalled in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Amen! Amen!! Amen!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Hat-Tip Daily Kos<\/a>: Here\u2019s a campaign ad from Pamela Gorman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Behold the face of the GOP!<\/span><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: from Cagle.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"1bagley\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s on tap for July?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I kept current with replying to comments and returning visits.\u00a0 The monthly report will be out tomorrow, after my stats update.\u00a0 I received some good news yesterday.\u00a0 I have been accepted to continue my volunteer work co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners with the new service provider that will be taking over the […]<\/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-2090","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\/2090","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=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}