{"id":5252,"date":"2011-06-30T02:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2011-06-30T02:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T09:12:40","slug":"open-thread6302011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/30\/open-thread6302011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/30\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a rough day.  I missed most of yesterday\u2019s sleep cycle doing analysis for today\u2019s editorial on the press conference.  Nevertheless, I\u2019m current on replies.  Today there are some ZZZZZZZs I need to find.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:25 (average 5:48).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/font>The United States will push ahead with more targeted drone strikes and special operations raids and fewer costly land battles such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan in the continuing war against Al Qaeda, according to a new national counterterrorism strategy unveiled yesterday.<\/p>\n

While I prefer peaceful solutions by definition, I recognize that Al Qaeda needs to be opposed, and this may is preferable to multi-year ground wars.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: The Michelle Bachmann History Channel<\/font><\/p>\n

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Conan outdid himself!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The Oregon House voted Wednesday to give tribal police the same off-reservation authority as non-tribal officers, despite objections from county sheriffs who said the measure would open the door to lawsuits and give tribal officers unprecedented authority.<\/p>\n

Representatives approved the measure on a 33-25 vote after GOP representatives also argued the bill doesn\u2019t have enough oversight to ensure the tribes comply with state law. The measure now goes back to the Senate, which has already approved the bill but is scheduled to decide Wednesday evening whether to accept changes made in the House. John Kitzhaber has said he supports the bill.<\/p>\n

Effectively this will give Native American officers the same authority out of jurisdiction as any other officer.  Despite Republican opposition, Oregon is leading the way to progressive reform.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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It\u2019s a rough day.  I missed most of yesterday\u2019s sleep cycle doing analysis for today\u2019s editorial on the press conference.  Nevertheless, I\u2019m current on replies.  Today there are some ZZZZZZZs I need to find. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:25 (average 5:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-report","category-open-thread","category-45-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}