{"id":3039,"date":"2010-10-06T03:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2010-10-06T03:44:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:44:54","slug":"open-thread-1062010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/open-thread-1062010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 10\/6\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the day resting, fighting off chronic bronchitis and trying to reestablish a sleep schedule.   I hope I\u2019m back to full speed soon.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:14.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Miller\u2019s proposal to return to the days when senators were chosen by political insiders is actually much less radical than his other proposals to declare virtually everything unconstitutional. When Miller made the laughable claims that Social Security, Medicare, the federal minimum wage, and unemployment benefits violate the Constitution, he simply proclaimed that the Constitution must be read to eliminate laws he personally disapproves of.<\/p>\n

And this is the same guy who fired his own wife so she could collect unemployment benefits.  What\u2019s that?  It\u2019s standard Republican hypocrisy.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women of America, explains how health care reform legislation violates each and every one of the Ten Commandments … including the ones against adultery, graven images, and taking the Lord’s name in vain.<\/p>\n

Click through to go down the rabbit hole, and you won\u2019t be in Kansas anymore.  Their entire set of absurd arguments violates the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: Rachel interviews Christine O\u2019Dingbat\u2026 NOT! \ud83d\ude44<\/font><\/p>\n

\"6bagley\" <\/font><\/p>\n

So much for the Republican pledge of openness and transparency.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the day resting, fighting off chronic bronchitis and trying to reestablish a sleep schedule.   I hope I\u2019m back to full speed soon. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:14.  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From Think Progress: Miller\u2019s proposal to return to the days when […]<\/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-3039","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\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}