{"id":2735,"date":"2010-09-01T03:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2010-09-01T03:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:42:01","slug":"open-thread-912010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/open-thread-912010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/1\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I got tied up in doing volunteer work.  As a result, I replied to our comments, but did not have time to return visits.  I will, but not today.  When I return home from co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners, I have my online grocery shopping to do, so I won\u2019t be back to the blog until tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:35.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>Rick Scott’s narrow victory over Attorney General Bill McCollum, the preferred candidate of the Republican establishment, in the Florida gubernatorial primary could cost the GOP a key governorship in a race that could have implications for years to come.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s great news for Democrats.  Scott is such a loon that that they could win this.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The US commander of the Afghan war acknowledged Tuesday that the Taliban were expanding their footprint across the country even as international forces close in on their traditional southern strongholds.<\/p>\n

In a word, we\u2019re losing.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Me:  I just saw that Lisa Murkowski just conceded the Republican nomination for the Senate in AK to Joe Miller.  That\u2019s more ammunition for us.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"1keefe\" <\/font><\/p>\n

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

Yesterday, I got tied up in doing volunteer work.  As a result, I replied to our comments, but did not have time to return visits.  I will, but not today.  When I return home from co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners, I have my online grocery shopping to do, so I won\u2019t be back […]<\/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-2735","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\/2735","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=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}