{"id":5191,"date":"2011-06-24T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2011-06-24T01:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:42:53","slug":"open-thread6242011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/24\/open-thread6242011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/24\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was extremely busy, and I am quite pooped.  Nevertheless, I\u2019m current on replies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:54 (4:43 average).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From AFP\/Google<\/a>: <\/font>US President Barack Obama’s military commanders have said he ignored their advice for a more modest drawdown from Afghanistan and warned his decision carries risks for the war effort.<\/p>\n

Both General David Petraeus and Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Obama’s plan to withdraw 33,000 surge troops by the end of next summer was more "aggressive" than they had recommended.<\/p>\n

In trying to make everybody happy, he satisfied nobody.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Herman Cain called reporters who quoted his infamous three-page bill pledge \u201cstupid.\u201d \u201cSome of these idiotic reporters thought I was serious,\u201d he said yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reports.<\/p>\n

Brothers and sisters, the mark of Cain is the GOP Logo! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Nation<\/a>: <\/font>In a run-off election completed this week, the nation\u2019s 40,000 Transportation Security Administration employees voted to become members of the American Federation of Government Employees.<\/p>\n

Not only is this a big win for labor, but union work standards will help make our nation more secure.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"23Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was extremely busy, and I am quite pooped.  Nevertheless, I\u2019m current on replies. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:54 (4:43 average).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From AFP\/Google: US President Barack Obama’s military commanders have said he ignored their advice for a more modest drawdown from […]<\/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-5191","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\/5191","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=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}