{"id":5359,"date":"2011-07-11T00:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:49:14","slug":"open-thread7112011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/open-thread7112011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/11\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I slept quite late.  I must have needed it.  Of course, that caused me to have trouble sleeping in the evening, so I\u2019ll be bleary before I\u2019m done.  I\u2019m current on replies, but yesterday\u2019s errands, still undone are today\u2019s now.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:23 (average 4:29).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Republic<\/a>: <\/font>Isaac Weix thinks he can win a Democratic primary for state Senate on Tuesday, even though he’s not campaigning and he’s not a Democrat.<\/p>\n

Weix is one of six fake Democrats running in recall elections under a move organized by the state Republican Party to delay the general election for a month. The Republicans got members of their party to run as Democrats, giving the real candidates a challenger for Tuesday’s primary.<\/p>\n

I certainly hope Wisconsin liberals have educated the public about these damn Republican pseudo-crats.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Daily Beast<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n

On Face the Nation<\/a>, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner promised that failure is not an option in the debt talks. So what will ensure that the government doesn\u2019t default? \u201cWhat the president wants to do,\u201d Geithner said, \u201cand he’s bringing the leadership to the White House this evening \u2026 he wants to do the largest possible deal that’s going to do the most for the economy."<\/p>\n

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I never thought I\u2019d think Timmy the Tool was telling the truth!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>In stunning fashion the women of USA pulled off one of the greatest come from behind wins in World Cup soccer history. Abby Wambach scored a goal on a header to tie the game with under a minute left in extra time after thirty minutes of OT had been already been played and down a player for over fifty minutes at that point. <\/p>\n

After Abby scored, the USA won on PK’s and came away with the dramatic victory. <\/p>\n

I had been watching this game and still had it on in the background as I did my daily research.  needless to say, finding this blew the suspense for me.  Congrats to the US women.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I slept quite late.  I must have needed it.  Of course, that caused me to have trouble sleeping in the evening, so I\u2019ll be bleary before I\u2019m done.  I\u2019m current on replies, but yesterday\u2019s errands, still undone are today\u2019s now. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:23 (average 4:29).  To do it click […]<\/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-5359","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\/5359","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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}