{"id":5646,"date":"2011-08-20T01:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2011-08-20T01:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:07:06","slug":"open-thread8202011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/open-thread8202011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/20\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed, recovering form the rigors of Thursday.  My two days a month working in prison are hard on me, but worth it.  I finally found an air conditioner that will not overload the electrical system in my 100+ year old building.  It\u2019s a free standing unit that is only 1,000 BTUs and only pulls 250W.  It will be delivered right after the current heat wave is over next week.  I am current on replies.  Today I have volunteer paperwork to do.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:06 (average 5:07).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Russ Feingold will not run for U.S. Senate [or for governor] again in 2012, the Wisconsin Democrat told supporters in an email Friday morning.  <\/p>\n

"While I may seek elective office again someday, I have decided not to run for public office during 2012," Feingold wrote. <\/p>\n

Feingold\u2019s decision throws a monkey wrench into plans to recall the Dictator of Fitzwalkerstan.  Without a well known candidate to oppose Walker, recall is unlikely.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Ronald Reagan’s chief domestic policy adviser took Texas governor Rick Perry to the woodshed Friday for recent controversial statements — in particular about his suggestion that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke would be committing treason by printing money to boost economic growth. <\/p>\n

"Rick Perry’s an idiot, and I don’t think anyone would disagree with that," Bruce Bartlett said on CNN’s American Morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who would have thought that I would ever agree with Ronnie Ray-Gun\u2019s domestic policy czar on anything!??!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>While the Family Research Council tries to paint itself as one of the Religious Right\u2019s more mainstream and respectable lobbying organizations, its extreme rhetoric continues to gain exposure. Just yesterday, for instance, FRC president Tony Perkins called the anti-suicide It Gets Better Project \u201cimmoral\u201d and \u201cdisgusting\u201d<\/a> in a fundraising letter.<\/p>\n

Now, Perkins is calling advocates of church-state separation \u201ccultural terrorists.\u201d Yesterday during Today\u2019s Issues [Theocons delinked] with American Family Association president Tim Wildmon on the AFA\u2019s American Family Radio, Perkins portrayed liberals as unpatriotic and attacked legal organizations that support secular government as un-American, comparing them to terrorists.<\/p>\n

The only difference between the Religious Right\u2019s more \u201cmainstream and respectable\u201d wing and the Dominionism of Bachmann and Perry is the size of the tin foil hat.  Both have replaced authentic Christianity with their own invention: Republican Supply-side Jesus with his gospel of greed, hate and racism.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed, recovering form the rigors of Thursday.  My two days a month working in prison are hard on me, but worth it.  I finally found an air conditioner that will not overload the electrical system in my 100+ year old building.  It\u2019s a free standing unit that […]<\/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-5646","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\/5646","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=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}