{"id":2844,"date":"2010-09-11T01:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T08:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2010-09-11T01:39:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T08:39:59","slug":"open-thread-9112010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/open-thread-9112010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/11\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I finally caught back up with returning visits.  It took most of the day.  I don\u2019t anticipate any difficulty in staying up to date today.  I have a couple outside errands to run, a volunteer article to write, and I have to find a new feed aggregator to keep track of the 500-1000 articles I skim daily, as my old one is going out of business.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:37.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>A prominent gay rights organization is sending a chunk of money to liberal groups in Minnesota to offset Target’s controversial donation to a pro-Tom Emmer political action committee.<\/p>\n

The Human Rights Campaign, based in Washington, D.C., will donate $100,000 to Win Minnesota, a PAC that helps fund anti-Emmer TV advertisements. <\/p>\n

Good.  This will help overcome Target\u2019s shameful bigotry.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>: <\/font>The Rev. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who has garnered worldwide attention for his plan earlier this week to burn Qurans on September 11, arrived in New York late Friday night, according to footage provided by CNN affiliate WABC.<\/p>\n

"I don’t have anything to say right now," he told a group of reporters who followed him out of LaGuardia Airport and to a taxi cab.<\/p>\n

K.A. Paul, an evangelist in contact with the Rev. Terry Jones, said Friday there will be no burning of the book Saturday evening, as had been originally planned.<\/p>\n

Sadly, a couple other Republican churches are taking his place.  Now that this hypochristian knows the limelight, I hate to think of what he will do next.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>With Delaware’s Republican Senate primary just days away, Tea Party-backed contender Christine O’Donnell is impugning the masculinity of GOP rival U.S. Rep. Mike Castle.<\/p>\n

In an interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin, O’Donnell called on her opponent "get your man-pants on" in the contentious election fight.<\/p>\n

The comment came in response to news that the state Republican party of Delaware — a firm supporter of Castle’s campaign — filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing O’Donnell of breaking the law in coordinating her political operation with the Tea Party Express.<\/p>\n

Christine \u201cforbidden fingers\u201d O\u2019Donnell has previously implies that Castle is gay on several occasions.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"11keefe\" <\/font><\/p>\n

What\u2019s on tap today?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I finally caught back up with returning visits.  It took most of the day.  I don\u2019t anticipate any difficulty in staying up to date today.  I have a couple outside errands to run, a volunteer article to write, and I have to find a new feed aggregator to keep track of the 500-1000 articles […]<\/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-2844","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\/2844","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=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}