{"id":3686,"date":"2010-12-22T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2010-12-22T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:21:43","slug":"open-thread12222010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/open-thread12222010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–12\/22\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I hoped to get some visiting in, but I got tied up dealing with the steps needed to start a program to quit smoking about a month from now.  I\u2019m not looking forward to that.  I did reply to comments, though.  Tomorrow my posts may be up late, because I have a month\u2019s grocery order being delivered in the morning.  Putting it all away is often a taxing event.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 5:01 (average 5:49).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Business Insider<\/a>: <\/font>Is Brian Moynihan worried about something (perhaps related to Wikileaks) or is Bank of America just practicing some prudent defensive brand management. <\/p>\n

According to Domain Name Wire, the bank recently registered BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com so that nobody else can get them first. They also registered .net and .org versions.<\/p>\n

What about bites?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a><\/font>: <\/font><\/p>\n

The New York Daily News is reporting that, after a marathon negotiating session late last night and continuing into this morning, Senate Democrats have struck a deal to pass the 9\/11 first responders bill with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who has been blocking the bill because of its cost. Coburn, along with fellow-obstructionist Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), managed to extract huge concessions, bringing the total compensation package to $4.3 billion, down from an original pool of over $7 billion. The \u201ctime span was also significantly limited to five years each for the health treatment program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since I clipped the article, it passed on a voice vote.  Also, START just passed.  Republicans would have caved on taxes too.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>"Repealing DOMA, getting ENDA [a bill to protect LGBT people from discrimination] done, those are things that should be done," Obama told The Advocate the night before signing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal into law. "I think those are natural next steps legislatively. I’ll be frank with you, I think that’s not going to get done in two years. We’re on a three- or four-year time frame unless there’s a real transformation of attitudes within the Republican caucus."<\/p>\n

That won\u2019t happen, but I look forward to \u201cAsk, Tell, I do\u201d for LGBT folks.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

This hump day, humping is suspended.  Congress is leaving DC.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I hoped to get some visiting in, but I got tied up dealing with the steps needed to start a program to quit smoking about a month from now.  I\u2019m not looking forward to that.  I did reply to comments, though.  Tomorrow my posts may be up late, because I have a month\u2019s grocery […]<\/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-3686","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\/3686","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=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}