{"id":5313,"date":"2011-07-06T02:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2011-07-06T02:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:01:19","slug":"open-thread762011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/open-thread762011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/6\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was another heat and bad air day.&#160; Although only 86\u00b0 outside, my breezeway and only source of outside air maxed out at 139\u00b0.&#160; At my desk, it\u2019s still 91\u00b0.&#160; Although I\u2019m frazzled, I\u2019m current on replies, but many were shorter than usual, so please don\u2018t think I was blowing you off.&#160; Today O go to my denturist for a test fitting of mu dentures before he adds the teeth.&#160; I will be out in the mid-day heat waiting at bus stops, so I may be ever worse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 5:09 (average 6:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-07-06-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.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-05\/news-corp-to-probe-report-murder-victim-s-phone-was-hacked.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. came under pressure from U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to respond to \u201creally appalling\u201d allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keith covered it too.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Countdown<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P8Z_pZIKmfo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That man is evil!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/07\/05\/260928\/hayworth-wall-street-compassionate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>:&#160; <\/font>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), for instance, said a few weeks ago that \u201cthe less we fund\u201d financial system regulators, \u201cthe better America will be.\u201d And the Associated Press noted today that Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) called the GOP assault on Wall Street reform, \u201centirely practical\u201d and even \u201ccompassionate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Compassionate to banksters only.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"6Cartoon\" alt=\"6Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/6Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another heat and bad air day.&#160; Although only 86\u00b0 outside, my breezeway and only source of outside air maxed out at 139\u00b0.&#160; At my desk, it\u2019s still 91\u00b0.&#160; Although I\u2019m frazzled, I\u2019m current on replies, but many were shorter than usual, so please don\u2018t think I was blowing you off.&#160; Today O go <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/open-thread762011\/' 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-5313","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\/5313","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=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}