{"id":5548,"date":"2011-08-07T01:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T08:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2011-08-07T01:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T08:44:33","slug":"open-thread872011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/open-thread872011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/7\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I slept late in the morning, making up for too much burning the candle at both ends.&#160; In the morning, I caught up on email.&#160; In the afternoon I was the guest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/jedlemon\/2011\/08\/06\/fred-and-jed-radio-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Fred and Jed Show<\/a>.&#160; Click through if you\u2019d like to listen.&#160; Today I have lots of overdue housework to finish.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:22 (average 5:18 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-08-07-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.youtube.com\/watch?v=XcyYZxY1tA8&amp;feature=player_embedded#at=44\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a>: S &amp; P explains the downgrade.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XcyYZxY1tA8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Clearly the Republicans are at fault for bringing the US to the brink of default.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-politics\/texas-democratic-party\/austin-protestors-rally-against-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>While Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters were praying in Houston, several hundred protestors were rallying against him on the grounds of the state Capitol Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good for them!&#160; Under the guise of praying for America, Perry and his ilk are preying on America.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2011\/08\/06\/as_afghanistan_57\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a>: <\/font>The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among the 31 U.S. soldiers lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing a total of 31 U.S. troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country&#8217;s president said Saturday. An American official said it was apparently shot down, in the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My heart goes out to their families.&#160; Here are 31 stellar&#160; reasons to end this damn war now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"7Cartoon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/7Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I slept late in the morning, making up for too much burning the candle at both ends.&#160; In the morning, I caught up on email.&#160; In the afternoon I was the guest on The Fred and Jed Show.&#160; Click through if you\u2019d like to listen.&#160; Today I have lots of overdue housework to finish. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/open-thread872011\/' 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-5548","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\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}