{"id":5677,"date":"2011-08-24T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2011-08-24T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:05:17","slug":"open-thread8242011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/open-thread8242011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/24\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a little cooler, and I did manage to get some sleep in the morning, but&#160; the temperature at my desk was back in the 90s by noon, where it remains.&#160; I\u2019m up to date with replies.&#160; Today is forecast to be much hotter, but my AC is not scheduled to arrive until Thursday, a volunteer day at the prison.&#160; I\u2019ll be hunkered down trying to rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:23 (average 5:47).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-08-24-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:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/libyaNews\/idAFN1E77M16920110823\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>New York and New Jersey politicians are demanding that any new government in Tripoli extradite to the United States a Libyan official convicted in Britain for the December 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner.<\/p>\n<p>Abdel Baset al- Megrahi was convicted by a special Scottish court of participating in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. He was sentenced to a minimum prison term of 27 years.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I support this move, but it would be a lot more meaningful, if we extradited Bush and Cheney in return.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Countdown<\/a>: Keith\u2019s worst persons\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjfA9eF3LOE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think all three deserve the grand prize.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/education\/2011\/08\/23\/302187\/corbett-pennsylvania-sheep-cutting-grass\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, those [Republican budget] cuts meant putting an end to traditional means of cutting grass at two local schools. Instead of lawnmowers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateline.org\/live\/details\/story?contentId=595325\" target=\"_blank\">schools are using sheep<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m confident that the Republican party has provided the sheep a TV tuned to <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, and registered the sheep to vote.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"24Cartoon\" alt=\"24Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/24Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a little cooler, and I did manage to get some sleep in the morning, but&#160; the temperature at my desk was back in the 90s by noon, where it remains.&#160; I\u2019m up to date with replies.&#160; Today is forecast to be much hotter, but my AC is not scheduled to arrive until Thursday, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/open-thread8242011\/' 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-5677","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\/5677","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=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}