{"id":3851,"date":"2011-01-14T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2011-01-14T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:47:44","slug":"open-thread1142011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/open-thread1142011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/14\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posts are running late today, because I overslept and I had to go out to run a couple errands, but I am caught up on comments.  I plan to spend the weekend celebrating the holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb: The Rite of Conference Semifinals.  I still feel like crap, but not quite as bad as yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today, it took me 4:47 (average 5:20).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From BBC<\/a>: <\/font>David Kernell, 23, was found guilty last year of illegally accessing Mrs Palin’s e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

At the time, a judge suggested he should serve his year-long sentence in a halfway house.<\/p>\n

But after intervention from US government officials he is now in federal prison, the BBC has learned.<\/p>\n

Although I am in no way condoning this man hacking into a private email account, had he done it to a Democrat instead of to Sarah \u201cBlood Libel\u201d Palin, he would be in a halfway house.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Americans United<\/a>: <\/font>A Tennessee county\u2019s preference for Christianity in its courthouse displays violates the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.<\/p>\n

Americans United, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, is challenging the Johnson County Commission\u2019s decision to display the Ten Commandments and Christian literature in the courthouse lobby while refusing to display a local man\u2019s posters about the historic role of church-state separation in American law.<\/p>\n

As a Christian, I support the AU position.  There is justification for the Ten Commandments in a court house, as long as it is in the company of other historical legal documents, but allowing Christian literature while refusing literature espousing different views, violates the establishment clause<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>The tragic shooting in Tucson last weekend has sparked a host of proposed legislative responses, but none is as hare brained as Rep. Louie Gohmert\u2019s (R-TX) idea to allow members of Congress to pack heat inside the Capitol Building, and even when on the House floor.<\/p>\n

Only professional security personnel should be armed on the floor of Congress and mentally instable people should be forbidden to carry firearms.  These are ywo reasons Gohmert should not be allowed to pack heat.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

Posts are running late today, because I overslept and I had to go out to run a couple errands, but I am caught up on comments.  I plan to spend the weekend celebrating the holy days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb: The Rite of Conference Semifinals.  I still feel like crap, but not […]<\/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-3851","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\/3851","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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}