{"id":2125,"date":"2010-07-03T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T09:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2010-07-03T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T09:25:12","slug":"open-thread-732010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/open-thread-732010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/3\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went to see my pulmonologists assistant.  She told me that if I need sleeping pills, to get them from my regular doctor.  Geez.  She could have told me that on the phone instead of wasting half my day.  Microsoft called again.  It turns out that there\u2019s nothing wrong with my computer after all.  I had started getting the same script failure on two different websites at the same time.  Since both had worked before, long term, I figured it was my system.  The tech rep had a brainstorm and tried to perform the same functions on the same websites on his own computer.  He got the same errors.  ARGH!  Go figure!!  I did reply to comments, but had no time to return visits.  I hope to catch up today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:23.  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 Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>In an interview with Fox News, Brewer said, "We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings."<\/p>\n

Governor Brewer does not realize that her apparent lack of anything in her head stems from idiocy, not immigration.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and then-New York Fed President Timothy Geithner told senators on April 3, 2008, that the tens of billions of dollars in \u201cassets\u201d the government agreed to purchase in the rescue of Bear Stearns Cos. were \u201cinvestment-grade.\u201d They didn\u2019t share everything the Fed knew about the money. <\/p>\n

The so-called assets included collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed bonds with names like HG-Coll Ltd. 2007-1A that were so distressed, more than $40 million already had been reduced to less than investment-grade by the time the central bankers testified. The government also became the owner of $16 billion of credit-default swaps, and taxpayers wound up guaranteeing high-yield, high-risk junk bonds.<\/p>\n

Telling it like it is, Geithner and Bernanke lied.  They defrauded the US Senate, and by extension, the American people.  They need replacement.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele suggested at a Connecticut fundraiser that Afghanistan is "a war of Obama’s choosing" despite the fact that it began years before the president took office.<\/p>\n

Next, they\u2019ll be claiming that Obama started the Civil War.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"3parker\"<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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

Yesterday I went to see my pulmonologists assistant.  She told me that if I need sleeping pills, to get them from my regular doctor.  Geez.  She could have told me that on the phone instead of wasting half my day.  Microsoft called again.  It turns out that there\u2019s nothing wrong with my computer after all.  […]<\/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-2125","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\/2125","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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}