{"id":5209,"date":"2011-06-26T02:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2011-06-26T02:55:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:55:45","slug":"open-thread6262011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/open-thread6262011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/26\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my articles were late, because I was so tired that I fell asleep at the keyboard.  After my blog work was done, I had breakfast, napped, had lunch, napped, had dinner, napped and slept late so I\u2019m running behind again.  I am current on replies.  Today I have errands to run.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:09 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Fantasy Football<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Those to whom I sent notices have one more day.  I\u2019ll be posting the ID and password for Lefty Blog Friends tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Detroit Free Press<\/a>: <\/font>Michigan native Mitt Romney and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann are neck and neck in a new poll of likely participants in Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses.<\/p>\n

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, claims 23%, and Bachmann, a tea partier from Minnesota, has 22%. Neither has done heavy lifting in Iowa. Retired pizza CEO Herman Cain of Georgia is in third, with 10%.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be happy for us to run against either.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Vile Plutocrat<\/a>: <\/font>A group backed by 81 major companies \u2014 including McDonald\u2019s, Lowe\u2019s, General Dynamics, American Airlines, IBM and General Mills \u2014 is lobbying against new rules that would force disclosure of how much more their chief executive makes than the typical worker.<\/p>\n

Is it any surprise that they don\u2019t want us to know?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Despite the common refrain that the Tea Party doesn\u2019t care about social issues like gay rights, today the Tea Party Nation emailed its members a post by right-wing activist Alan Caruba on the dangers of marriage equality and anti-bullying programs. Caruba, who once called marriage equality \u201can act of societal suicide,\u201d discussed how Tea Party activists need to stop \u201cthe queering of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone who believes the Teabaggers aren\u2019t about \u201csocial issues\u201d, please send me your credit card numbers, pins, and validation codes to claim your share of a multi-billion dollar fortune. \ud83d\ude08<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday my articles were late, because I was so tired that I fell asleep at the keyboard.  After my blog work was done, I had breakfast, napped, had lunch, napped, had dinner, napped and slept late so I\u2019m running behind again.  I am current on replies.  Today I have errands to run. Jig Zone Puzzle: […]<\/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-5209","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\/5209","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=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}