{"id":5039,"date":"2011-06-08T03:12:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2011-06-09T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T07:30:29","slug":"open-thread682011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/open-thread682011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/8\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was so tired that I not only spent most of the day sleeping, but also, overslept last night, so I\u2019m running a couple hours behind this morning.\u00a0 That\u2019s why today\u2019s articles are late.\u00a0 I am current with replies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:43 (average 4:15).\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

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

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/span>After months of intensive lobbying by banks, the Senate is slated to vote Wednesday on a controversial bill that would delay changes to debit-card swipe fees that would cost the industry billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) unveiled revised legislation Tuesday that requires four banking regulators to study the issue for six months. The Federal Reserve would then have an additional six months to rewrite the rules governing swipe fees.<\/p>\n

Damn Dino!<\/span><\/p>\n

From http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/06\/house-republicans-look-to-privatize-social-security.php<\/a>: <\/span>Introduced by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), who also chairs the House’s campaign efforts at the NRCC, the “Savings Account For Every American Act” would allow people to immediately opt out of Social Security in favor of a private “S.A.F.E.” account. Eventually the program would expand to let employers send their matching contribution to workers’ Social Security to a “S.A.F.E.” account as well.<\/p>\n

As soon as upper income people started opting out, it would kill Social Security, because revenue would stop coming in, so there\u2019s nothing voluntary about this plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/span>The right-wing group Save California is apoplectic over the recent enactment of a day to honor Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco politician and civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1978. Led by Randy Thomasson, Save California has urged parents to pull their children out of public schools to protest efforts to recognize the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in California history.<\/p>\n

These fools are afraid that their kids will catch \u201cthe gay\u201d, so they certainly won\u2019t allow history to interfere with hate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I was so tired that I not only spent most of the day sleeping, but also, overslept last night, so I\u2019m running a couple hours behind this morning.\u00a0 That\u2019s why today\u2019s articles are late.\u00a0 I am current with replies. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:43 (average 4:15).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 […]<\/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-5039","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\/5039","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=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}