{"id":2662,"date":"2010-08-25T02:09:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2010-08-25T02:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:09:49","slug":"open-thread-8252010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/open-thread-8252010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/25\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I replied to comments and returned visits before the heat hit.&#160; It is now 94\u00b0 at my desk, but it will only last&#160; one more day.&#160; I hope to stay caught up today, but I am sleep-short, have errands to run, and have volunteer work to do in preparation for my volunteer day in prison tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:49.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-25-CE2504A965A9\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/24\/AR2010082406493.html\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Shirley Sherrod politely declined to return to the federal government weeks after she was forced to resign amid a race-laden political controversy.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That\u2019s a shame, but who can blame her after the way Vilsack caved in to Republican criminals and their media minion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/24\/glenn-beck-rally\/\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>This weekend, Glenn Beck will hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/828\/\">billed<\/a> as a \u201cnon-political event that pays tribute to America\u2019s service personnel and other upstanding citizens who embody our nation\u2019s founding principles of integrity, truth and honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It it\u2019s not political, it must be religious, with Beck casting himself as messiah.&#160; Beyond doubt, integrity, truth and honor will not be welcome there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\">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=\"25keefe\" border=\"0\" alt=\"25keefe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/25keefe.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"377\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I replied to comments and returned visits before the heat hit.&#160; It is now 94\u00b0 at my desk, but it will only last&#160; one more day.&#160; I hope to stay caught up today, but I am sleep-short, have errands to run, and have volunteer work to do in preparation for my volunteer day in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/open-thread-8252010\/' 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-2662","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\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}