{"id":5228,"date":"2011-06-28T01:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T08:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2011-06-28T01:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T08:58:27","slug":"open-thread6282011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/open-thread6282011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/28\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I had a bad air day,&#160; the heat and humidity set off my COPD.&#160; Running my errands wiped me out.&#160; Nevertheless, I\u2019m up to date on replies, although there were lots of comments to answer.&#160; I never mind that!&#160; Today\u2019s schedule depends on how I feel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:34 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-06-28-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.net\/story.php?id=1587309\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFlash<\/a>: When Scott Walker tried to attend a picnic.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3GNr1rFQY_w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The people chased him away!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2011\/06\/jerry-browns-office-calls-republicans-basically-moronic.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>With California&#8217;s new fiscal year starting Friday and no compromise with the GOP on a budget in sight, Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s chief spokesman called Sacramento Republicans &quot;basically moronic&quot; for failing to strike an agreement.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Right on, Governor Moonbeam!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/06\/27\/MN0O1K3BCT.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Rod Blagojevich, who won two terms as Illinois governor before scandal made him a national punch line, was convicted Monday of corruption charges, including trying to sell President Obama&#8217;s Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m amazed it took so long!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"28Cartoon\" alt=\"28Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/28Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a bad air day,&#160; the heat and humidity set off my COPD.&#160; Running my errands wiped me out.&#160; Nevertheless, I\u2019m up to date on replies, although there were lots of comments to answer.&#160; I never mind that!&#160; Today\u2019s schedule depends on how I feel. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:34 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/open-thread6282011\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-5228","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\/5228","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=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}