{"id":3811,"date":"2011-01-08T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2011-01-08T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:55:22","slug":"open-thread182011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/open-thread182011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/8\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m up do date with comments, but doubt that I shall visit any blogs today, because of chores that need doing here and the Wildcard Festival of the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:47 (average 4:04).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) literally accused the Republican leadership of the House of being a bunch of big old liars on the floor of the House last night. But that isn’t exactly what he meant.<\/p>\n

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I have never questioned Limpy\u2019s mendacity, and never will.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>I don’t know about you, but when Cindy Jacobs tells me that she has received an "urgent prayer alert from our good friend Chuck Pierce concerning California," my ears perk up … especially when that prayer alert entails God warning that failure by the courts to uphold Proposition 8 will result in California being destroyed by a massive earthquake.<\/p>\n

LMAO!! \"Open-mouthed<\/p>\n

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

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

May the Orb bless your team!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m up do date with comments, but doubt that I shall visit any blogs today, because of chores that need doing here and the Wildcard Festival of the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:47 (average 4:04).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From […]<\/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-3811","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\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}