{"id":5480,"date":"2011-07-28T00:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T07:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2011-07-28T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:07:35","slug":"open-thread7282011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/open-thread7282011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/28\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was my day to co-facilitate a therapy group for former prisoners.  The down side of that is that the way back to the bus stop is a three block walk up a steep hill: a real challenge for my COPD.  I\u2019m glad I can still do it, and I suspect it\u2019s glad it can still do me.  There\u2019s not much left afterwards.  I am current with replies.  Today I\u2019m only putting up one other article.  It\u2019s my day to do volunteer work helping prisoners in Oregon State Penitentiary  learn healthy thinking and and how to transform that into pro social behavior.  The down side of that is that I get home late at night at the time I normally wake up to do my research.  Therefore, depending on how I feel, I may post no articles tomorrow, of if I can, they will be later than normal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:26 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Nation<\/a>: <\/font>House Speaker John Boehner has a new excuse for the dissent within the ranks of the House Republican Caucus he is supposed to lead.<\/p>\n

The caucus, Boehner says, has been infiltrated by a cabal that hopes to take the US economy hostage<\/a> in order to force political concessions from President Obama and Congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n

How about that Agent Orange.  The brown-shirt storm troopers have been goose stepping behind him from the beginning, but now that the blackmail has not worked as planned, he\u2019s blaming them.  He should have known they were too dumb to stop goose-stepping.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>Stocks sank, dragging the Standard & Poor\u2019s 500 Index down the most in almost two months, and Treasuries and commodities slid as a stalemate over the debt ceiling pushed the U.S. closer to default.<\/p>\n

And so it begins.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood confirmed today that one of their Dallas-area clinics was the target of a violent attack last night<\/a>. Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications for Planned Parenthood in Dallas said that at around 11 pm last night, the attacker(s) threw a Molotov cocktail, consisting of diesel fuel in a glass bottle with a lit rag, at the building. \u201cIt didn\u2019t penetrate the health center office and none of the staff or patients were there, which is great,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the responsible Republicans were as incompetent as they are hateful.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday was my day to co-facilitate a therapy group for former prisoners.  The down side of that is that the way back to the bus stop is a three block walk up a steep hill: a real challenge for my COPD.  I\u2019m glad I can still do it, and I suspect it\u2019s glad it can […]<\/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-5480","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\/5480","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=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}