{"id":2169,"date":"2010-07-07T02:43:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2010-07-07T02:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T09:43:58","slug":"open-thread-772010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/open-thread-772010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/7\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I stayed caught up.  Then I wilted.  It reached 98 in my apartment and has only cooled to 82 now.  I\u2019ll fall behind today, because it will be 10 degrees hotter, and because, I\u2019ll be co-facilitating a former prisoners\u2019 group as a volunteer.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:12.  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 McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font>The South Carolina Democratic Party will have a new leader next spring following the Alvin Greene political debacle. <\/p>\n

Party chairwoman Carol Fowler told The State she won’t seek a third term in the spring of 2011. Fowler said her decision not to seek re-election is not due to Greene, the party’s surprise U.S. Senate nominee, who is facing a federal obscenity charge.<\/p>\n

Nothing to o with Greene?  Ha!  That woman lies like a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>An Israeli soldier who fought in the country’s war on Gaza last year is to be prosecuted for the manslaughter of two Palestinian women, the military has said.<\/p>\n

While probably appropriate, this reminds me of the prosecution of a few soldiers over Abu Ghraib, while the architects of torture remained untouched.  In both incidents justice demands moving to the top of the food chain.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Tar balls have now hit every single state on the Gulf Coast, \u201cafter a bucket\u2019s worth of tar balls hit a Texas beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Rick \u201cthe secessionist\u201d Perry once called the GOP gusher an act of God.  Perhaps God should pay for Texas\u2019 cleanup, reserving BP funds for other locations.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"7bagley\"<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

Happy Hump Day!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I stayed caught up.  Then I wilted.  It reached 98 in my apartment and has only cooled to 82 now.  I\u2019ll fall behind today, because it will be 10 degrees hotter, and because, I\u2019ll be co-facilitating a former prisoners\u2019 group as a volunteer. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:12.  To do it, […]<\/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-2169","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\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}