{"id":3354,"date":"2010-11-13T04:37:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2010-11-13T04:37:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:37:57","slug":"open-thread11112010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/open-thread11112010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/11\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I prepared a presentation on expectations for the CoDA meeting sponsored by 7th Step.  I caught up on comments before the meeting and returned several hours after my normal bedtime.  I caught just a couple hours sleep and did my research, so I\u2019m feeling quite tired.  Today will depend on how I feel.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 5:49 (average 4:47).  Th do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NPR<\/a>: <\/font>A top Michigan Republican has officially announced that he will run against controversial Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele.<\/p>\n

Saul Anuzis, once head of the Michigan Republican Party, supported Steele for the chairmanship the last time around.<\/p>\n

Is this the end of the greatest gift Democrats ever wasted?<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Gov.-elect Rick Scott (R-FL) is already facing his first mini-scandal just a week after he beat Democrat Alex Sink in one of the nation’s closest and nastiest gubernatorial races. A part-time campaign worker who found the job through an ad on Craigslist is upset that the campaign paid him with an American Express gift card.<\/p>\n

Mark Don Givens told Florida’s WTSP News that he was expecting a paycheck after he made phone calls and knocked on doors for the Scott campaign, which made jobs a top issue in the election. Givens said he and other workers were upset after they were told by the campaign that they could not offer them a paycheck and given American Express gift cards instead.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the difference?  Republicans will do anything to duck paying their share of social security.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>No stranger to hyperbole, Alan Keyes in his latest column for WorldNetDaily suggests that the war between \u201cObama\u2019s Mao Zedong-style forced march to socialism\u201d and people who \u201clove liberty\u201d comes down to the question of Obama\u2019s eligibility to serve as President. Keyes claims that while the GOP\u2019s sins of massive spending, elitism, and political moderation are bad, their refusal to endorse Birtherism outright is even worse.<\/p>\n

Turnabout being fair play, is Rand Paul an alien?  I don\u2019t mean foreigner.  I mean alien.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"Don<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

What\u2019s up this weekend?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I prepared a presentation on expectations for the CoDA meeting sponsored by 7th Step.  I caught up on comments before the meeting and returned several hours after my normal bedtime.  I caught just a couple hours sleep and did my research, so I\u2019m feeling quite tired.  Today will depend on how I feel. Jig […]<\/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-3354","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\/3354","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=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}