{"id":3774,"date":"2011-01-03T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2011-01-03T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:28:10","slug":"open-thread132011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/open-thread132011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/3\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything is still mud slow as America awakens from the New Years weekend, so I have only one other item today.  But I think it\u2019s a good one.  We\u2019re having a cold spell here, and I\u2019m spending a lot of time in bed to keep warm as in out building they only turn on the central heat four hours daily, but I am up to date on comments.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:04 (average 4:47).  To do it, click here<\/a>. How do you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"DenWeek17\"<\/font><\/p>\n

At least we get the second pick in the draft.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Politico<\/a>: <\/font>House Republicans anxious to vote on a repeal of the president’s signature health care law will have to wait a little bit longer. <\/p>\n

A repeal measure \u2014 the top priority of many newly elected freshman Republicans \u2014 won’t be on the floor this week, according to senior GOP aides…<\/p>\n

…But a repeal bill could be on the floor as early as next week.<\/p>\n

I think this is mostly for show.  On the off chance it gets to Obama\u2019s desk, he\u2019ll veto it, because it\u2019s his signature achievement.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Business Insider<\/a>: <\/font>Reports of the US$ 500mm investment from Goldman Sachs in Facebook are all over the Internets. Of course, this is a significant event, because as ‘the age of entrepreneurship’ continues to gain momentum new financial constructions and liquidity events are needed to keep the ecosystem going and growing.<\/p>\n

Facebook denizens beware!  I can\u2019t see the epitome of Bankster evil jumping into Facebook except to mobilize that site\u2019s capacity to invade privacy against you.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>US President Barack Obama signed into law Sunday a bill to compensate emergency responders sickened in the rubble of the September 11 attacks, the White House said.<\/p>\n

This took far too long.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

Everything is still mud slow as America awakens from the New Years weekend, so I have only one other item today.  But I think it\u2019s a good one.  We\u2019re having a cold spell here, and I\u2019m spending a lot of time in bed to keep warm as in out building they only turn on the […]<\/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-3774","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\/3774","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=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}