{"id":2543,"date":"2010-08-12T00:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2010-08-12T00:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:29:42","slug":"open-thread-8122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/open-thread-8122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 8\/12\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I had a very bad air day.&#160; About mid way through the group I was co-facilitating my chest plugged up and I started coughing.&#160; I continued all afternoon and all night.&#160; I have not slept, because of it.&#160; Today\u2019s articles will be brief.&#160; I hope I will be able to sleep, so that I can reply to comments and return visits, but I can\u2019t guarantee it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:38.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/toomey-i-personally-led-a-filibuster-on-the-house-floor-video.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA) who is running for Senate against Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) made yesterday on CNN&#8217;s &quot;John King USA&quot; that caught our ear: he claimed that he once led a filibuster&#8230; on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Teabag Toomey is an idiot.&#160; The filibuster is a Senate rule only.&#160; There is no such thing as a filibuster on the House floor.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"12keefe\" border=\"0\" alt=\"12keefe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/12keefe.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good night!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a very bad air day.&#160; About mid way through the group I was co-facilitating my chest plugged up and I started coughing.&#160; I continued all afternoon and all night.&#160; I have not slept, because of it.&#160; Today\u2019s articles will be brief.&#160; I hope I will be able to sleep, so that I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/open-thread-8122010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-2543","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\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}