{"id":2711,"date":"2010-08-30T02:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2010-08-30T02:30:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T09:30:30","slug":"open-thread-8302010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/open-thread-8302010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 8\/30\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I managed to keep up to date with comments and returned all outstanding visits.  It took over six hours.  Today I have to go out to run a few errands, but expect that I can stay current.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:11.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Joe Miller, the surprise leader in Alaska’s unresolved Republican Senate primary, said Sunday that the growing national debt requires a "belt tightening" that should include cutting back on federal dollars that his state receives.<\/p>\n

Miller’s position, which he articulated throughout his campaign against incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, comes despite Alaska’s historic reliance on federal resources.<\/p>\n

I bet a dollar against a donut that, if this liar gets to DC, he will be a GOPig at the trough.  We\u2019re not done with this creep yet\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Unemployment benefits, Social Security and Medicare are not constitutional, according to the man likely to win the Republican Senate nomination in Alaska.<\/p>\n

The one thing I do like about the Teabaggers like Miller is that at least they come out and say what they want.  K-Street Republicans want the exact same thing, but they won\u2019t tell the truth unless backed into a corner.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The United States on Sunday condemned as "deeply offensive" remarks by an influential Israeli rabbi who said he hoped Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would "vanish from our world."<\/p>\n

"These remarks are not only deeply offensive, but incitement such as this hurts the cause of peace."<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good that they condemn this hate speech, but I wish they would be so expressive about the hate speech coming from Republican Senators, Representatives, Governors and candidates for office.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"30keefe\" <\/font><\/p>\n

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

Yesterday I managed to keep up to date with comments and returned all outstanding visits.  It took over six hours.  Today I have to go out to run a few errands, but expect that I can stay current. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:11.  To do it, click here.  How did you do? […]<\/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-2711","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\/2711","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=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}