{"id":5491,"date":"2011-07-31T00:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2011-07-31T01:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T08:48:29","slug":"open-thread8312011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/open-thread8312011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/31\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday I took a long nap from 11:00 until 4:00.\u00a0 I think I am finally caught up with sleep and am with replies as well.\u00a0 You guys east of here have more heat coming.\u00a0 Tomorrow, I have housework and paperwork to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today it took me 4:06 (average 4:47).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-07-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/congress\/112\/senate\/1\/votes\/120\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: [their data, my summary] <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Republicans who voted to table the Boner Bill on Friday night were: Jim DeMint, Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee, Joe LIEberman, Rand Paul, and David Vitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Most of these are not Republicans who crossed the aisle.\u00a0 They are Republicans who opposed raising the debt limit under any circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/30\/fire-destroys-offices-we-are-wisconsin_n_914156.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/span>Fire officials in La Crosse are continuing to investigate a Saturday blaze that destroyed the regional offices of We Are Wisconsin, a union political action committee (PAC) that has pumped millions of dollars into supporting Democratic candidates in the upcoming recall elections.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I won\u2019t accuse, but on a suspicious scale of 1 to 10, I\u2019m a 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/07\/koch-americans-prosperity-wisconsin-recall\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones<\/a>: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2009\/09\/big-businesss-hidden-hand-smear-job-van-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Americans for Prosperity<\/a>, the conservative political advocacy group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/08\/30\/100830fa_fact_mayer\" target=\"_blank\">founded by David Koch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamattersaction.org\/transparency\/organization\/Americans_for_Prosperity_Foundation\/funders\" target=\"_blank\">funded by<\/a> a roster of right-wing think tanks, has purchased $150,000 in TV air time in Green Bay, Madison, and Milwaukee, three of Wisconsin&#8217;s biggest media markets. The ad buy comes in the run-up to Wisconsin&#8217;s big recall elections, which are just over a week away. If spent on pro-GOP recall ads, the buy brings AFP&#8217;s overall political spending on the recall races to more than $500,000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$Half a million buys an awful lot of Koch sucking!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline;\" title=\"31Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/31Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"31Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took a long nap from 11:00 until 4:00.\u00a0 I think I am finally caught up with sleep and am with replies as well.\u00a0 You guys east of here have more heat coming.\u00a0 Tomorrow, I have housework and paperwork to do. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:06 (average 4:47).\u00a0 To do it, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/open-thread8312011\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","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\/5491","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=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}