{"id":5603,"date":"2011-08-14T00:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T07:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2011-08-14T23:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T06:32:33","slug":"open-thread8142011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/open-thread8142011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/14\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday there was little improvement in my Republicanitis.\u00a0 I\u2019m so full of Republicans that Imodium AD has not worked and trips to the throne have been too frequent to allow much sleep, let alone research.\u00a0 I am not current on replies and will catch up when I can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday it took me 2:56 (average 4:24).\u00a0 To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-08-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today it took me 3:07 (average 4:47).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-08-14-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I had a lot of motivation to hurry. \ud83d\ude41<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From SoINeedAName:\u00a0 Left in a comment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOIMXxytv2U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Timely and appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/appeals-court-rules-obama-health-care-bill-unconstitutional\/story?id=14292970\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>: <\/span>A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday struck down a key provision of the Obama administration&#8217;s health care reform law, ruling that Congress exceeded its authority in mandating that most Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">At the Federal Appeals Court level that\u2019s one for and one against.\u00a0 Bring on Medicare for all!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2011\/08\/13-5\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/span>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will submit an application for full U.N. membership at the General Assembly next month, his foreign minister said on Saturday, without specifying exactly when the request would be made.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I support recognition, and oppose the US opposition to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Me: The Looney Toons Follies in Iowa<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"line-height: normal; direction: ltr;\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; direction: ltr; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid;\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Iowa Straw Poll<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Michele Bachmann<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">4,823<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Ron Paul<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">4,671<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Tim Pawlenty<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">2,293<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Rick Santorum<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">1,657<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Herman Cain<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">1,456<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Rick Perry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">718<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Mitt Romney<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">567<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Newt Gingrich<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">385<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Jon Huntsman<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">69<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border-width: 1pt;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"138\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">Thaddeus McCotter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; border: #a3a3a3 1pt solid; padding: 4pt;\" width=\"68\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #0000ff;\">35<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Guess who provided the most free busses and paid for the most $30 tickets?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/13Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline;\" title=\"13Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/13Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"13Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was little improvement in my Republicanitis.\u00a0 I\u2019m so full of Republicans that Imodium AD has not worked and trips to the throne have been too frequent to allow much sleep, let alone research.\u00a0 I am not current on replies and will catch up when I can. Jig Zone Puzzles: Yesterday it took me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/open-thread8142011\/' 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":[31,35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-31-id","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\/5603","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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}