{"id":5279,"date":"2011-07-02T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2011-07-02T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T10:16:09","slug":"open-thread722011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/open-thread722011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/2\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent most of the morning collecting the data for today\u2019s monthly report.  I\u2019ve had little sleep with heat, noise and COPD flaring up, but I\u2019m current on replies.  Today, I sleep.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 2:54 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>New York State Sen. Marty Golden (R) \u2014 the only Brooklyn senator to vote against New York\u2019s same-sex marriage law \u2014 has condemned homosexuality as \u201cplain wrong!,\u201d claiming that it would lead to the \u201cdestruction of the sacrament of marriage.\u201d But as L Magazine notices, the Senator is more than happy to profit from it: a catering hall that Golden once owned and is still personally invested in is willing to cash in on the marriage equality gold rush and host gay and lesbian wedding receptions. <\/p>\n

Republicans are such hypocrites.  This reminds me of Denny Smith (R-OR), a 90s politician.  While pretending to be a \u201cfamily values\u201d guy, his printing company, which he still operates, published T & A Times, a guide to Oregon\u2019s steamy, seamy side.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Vile Plutocrat<\/a>: <\/font>CEO of Walmart [sic] Makes in One Hour What the Average Employee Makes In a Year <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t shop there.  They are BIG Republican donors too.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>So this is what \u201cfragile and reversible<\/a>\u201d progress looks like in Afghanistan: violence is up 51 percent since this time last year, thanks to a hurricane of insurgent suicide attacks, assassinations and bombs, undermining U.S. military claims that it\u2019s breaking the momentum of the Taliban.<\/p>\n

We stand a better chance at winning the peace, since we\u2019re losing the war.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I spent most of the morning collecting the data for today\u2019s monthly report.  I\u2019ve had little sleep with heat, noise and COPD flaring up, but I\u2019m current on replies.  Today, I sleep. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 2:54 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: 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-5279","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\/5279","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=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}