{"id":5171,"date":"2011-06-22T00:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2011-06-22T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:44:51","slug":"open-thread6222011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/open-thread6222011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/22\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a hot one.  The temperature in the breezeway (my only window exposure) reached 129\u00b0, and at my desk, 96\u00b0.  It\u2019s still 89\u00b0.  Ugh!  Today I go back to the denturist.  The lower impression didn\u2019t take.  I am current with replies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:19 (average 4:35).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Countdown drew 179,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic \u2013 not enough to beat MSNBC\u2019s 237,000 viewers, but enough to beat CNN\u2019s 89,000.<\/p>\n

That looks good until you consider that O\u2019Lielly at Faux Noise<\/em> has over 700,000 brain-dead sheeple.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Nation<\/a>: <\/font>Rand Paul to America’s Hungry Seniors: Let Them Eat Private Charity <\/p>\n

This is an excellent article.  Like father, like son.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>PFAW President Michael Keegan’s recent Huffington Post commentary pointed out that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, the latest to throw his hat in the GOP presidential ring, is more conservative than his media-generated image as a moderate. Here\u2019s more evidence supporting Keegan\u2019s claim that Huntsman\u2019s campaign strategy is to try to be all things to all people: Huntsman supporters are making a big play for campaign contributions from LGBT donors — but they aren’t telling the truth about his record.<\/p>\n

Just another Republican Reichmeister in moderate clothing.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday was a hot one.  The temperature in the breezeway (my only window exposure) reached 129\u00b0, and at my desk, 96\u00b0.  It\u2019s still 89\u00b0.  Ugh!  Today I go back to the denturist.  The lower impression didn\u2019t take.  I am current with replies. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:19 (average 4:35).  To do it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","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=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}