{"id":2653,"date":"2010-08-24T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T08:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2010-08-24T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T08:04:49","slug":"open-thread-8242010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/open-thread-8242010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/24\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I expect no trouble continuing that today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it too me 4:54.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?&#160; It\u2019s a real <em>dawg<\/em>!! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-stemcells-20100824,0,1006160.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>A U.S. district judge on Monday blocked the federal government from funding all research involving human embryonic stem cells on the grounds that it violates a 1996 law intended to prevent the destruction of of human embryos.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The judge was a Reagan appointee.&#160; It will be years before the judiciary can be balanced again.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/fix-endorsement-hierarchy\/chuck-hagel-and-the-me-for-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (R) will throw his support behind Rep. Joe Sestak&#8217;s (D) Senate candidacy tomorrow, the latest in a series of out-of-state surrogates getting behind the Pennsylvania Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hagel was one of the last principled conservatives to be driven to the sidelines by the current wave of Republicans without authentic values.<\/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=\"24bagley\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24bagley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/24bagley.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"413\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What\u2019s up?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I expect no trouble continuing that today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it too me 4:54.&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do?&#160; It\u2019s a real dawg!! \ud83d\ude09 Short Takes: From LA Times: A U.S. district judge on Monday blocked the federal government <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/open-thread-8242010\/' 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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}