{"id":5020,"date":"2011-06-06T01:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2011-06-06T01:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:21:50","slug":"open-thread662011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/open-thread662011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/6\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the heat was not as bad, but I still felt miserable.  Here in the wee hours, it\u2019s down to 84\u00b0inside.  I\u2019m current on replies.  I feel really old, because I graduated from high school forty five years ago today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:10 (average 4:17).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Little Green Footballs<\/a>: <\/font>Man, you\u2019ve gotta almost admire the sheer blind dedication of Sarah Palin\u2019s wingnut acolytes.<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re trying like crazy to edit the Wikipedia page for \u201cPaul Revere\u201d to make it match Palin\u2019s botched version of history.<\/p>\n

Although this is not original, that woman is an idiot.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Lez Get Real\u2019s Bridgette P. LaVictoire catches<\/a> this incident of a Marine in Afghanistan asking Secretary of Defense Robert Gates if he could leave the military following the repeal of Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell. \u201cSir, we joined the Marine Corps because the Marine Corps has a set of standards and values that is better than that of the civilian sector. And we have gone and changed those values and repealed the \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 policy,\u201d the Marine said. \u201cIs there going to be an option for those Marines that no longer wish to serve due to the fact their moral values have not changed?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gates told him \u2018no\u2019.  Frankly, I think that, because that Marine refuses to honor the rights of his fellow citizens, he is not fit to serve.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Republican Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s administration was succeeding in their plan to raise the price of gas.<\/p>\n

"Somebody told me that you said this week that you think that the president is trying to drive up energy policy — energy prices on purpose," CBS host Bob Schieffer noted in an interview with Barbour Sunday.<\/p>\n

"No question about that," Barbour insisted. "I mean, this administration’s policy has clearly has been to drive up the cost of energy so Americans would use less of it."<\/p>\n

What a fool!  Because higher energy costs stifles recovery, Obama is not going to hurt his reelection chances intentionally.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday the heat was not as bad, but I still felt miserable.  Here in the wee hours, it\u2019s down to 84\u00b0inside.  I\u2019m current on replies.  I feel really old, because I graduated from high school forty five years ago today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:10 (average 4:17).  To do it, click here.  […]<\/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-5020","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\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}