{"id":5408,"date":"2011-07-17T01:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T08:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2011-07-17T01:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T08:05:57","slug":"open-thread7172011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/open-thread7172011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/17\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my butt finally decided that it isn\u2019t Republican after all, but not before I was up all night.  My grocery delivery came.  Unpacking and storing a month\u2019s groceries took about three hours and left me exhausted.  I did get a couple hours sleep before research time, and I am current on replies.  Today\u2019s agenda is housekeeping and Zzzzz.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:40 (average 4:28).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>When it opens its doors next week, the federal government’s new agency to protect consumers from financial fraud won’t be quite the aggressive watchdog promised a year ago.<\/p>\n

Because of political squabbling, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally will launch without an appointed director. And the lack of leadership has real consequences.<\/p>\n

I understand he picked someone other than Warren. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Roughly 200 active-duty and retired U.S. service members marched in the San Diego gay pride parade Saturday, marking the first time in the parade’s history that a military contingent took part.<\/p>\n

The service members were not dressed in uniform. Instead, they wore T-shirts to indicate which branch of the military they were affiliated with. Each branch of service was represented.<\/p>\n

I celebrate their pride in who they are.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Pawlenty has suggested that blame for the financial crisis rests only with the \u201ccatastrophic scandal<\/a> of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,\u201d the two government sponsored mortgage giants. But for all his bluster about Freddie Mac, which required a massive bailout<\/a> in 2008, Pawlenty had no problem making Freddie\u2019s top government enabler a leader in his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s make sure the bloodthirsty base hears about this hypocrisy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday my butt finally decided that it isn\u2019t Republican after all, but not before I was up all night.  My grocery delivery came.  Unpacking and storing a month\u2019s groceries took about three hours and left me exhausted.  I did get a couple hours sleep before research time, and I am current on replies.  Today\u2019s agenda […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","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=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}