{"id":5110,"date":"2011-06-16T01:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2011-06-16T01:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T08:50:41","slug":"open-thread6162011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/open-thread6162011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/16\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did some work around the apartment.  Aster I went to sleep, my denturist\u2019s secretary woke me up to tell me that I need to go back next week for the denturist to redo the lower impression.  I could not get back to sleep, so I\u2019m running on bleary.  I an current with replies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:05 (average 4:23).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>More than five months after she was shot in the head while greeting constituents, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was released Wednesday from the Houston hospital where she had been undergoing physical therapy.<\/p>\n

Good news, for a change.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Rabid anti-choice activist Clenard Childress, who believes that gay rights are a sign of the End Times, is now comparing advocates of LGBT equality to the people in the Bible that called for Jesus’ death.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lie.  The people who called for Jesus\u2019 death were the ultra-conservative religious leaders, who remain with us as Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration argued Wednesday that its nearly three-month-old military involvement in Libya does not require congressional approval because of the supporting role most U.S. forces are playing there, a position that puts it at odds with some Republican leaders and the antiwar wing of its own party.<\/p>\n

Obama is dead wrong about this.  Regardless of one\u2019s stance about Libya, US forces are conducting military action and are in harm\u2019s way.  The War Powers Act makes no exception for participation in a supportive role.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I did some work around the apartment.  Aster I went to sleep, my denturist\u2019s secretary woke me up to tell me that I need to go back next week for the denturist to redo the lower impression.  I could not get back to sleep, so I\u2019m running on bleary.  I an current with replies. […]<\/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-5110","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\/5110","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=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}