{"id":5697,"date":"2011-08-27T00:09:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2011-08-27T00:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T07:09:19","slug":"open-thread8272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/open-thread8272011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/27\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I slept for 14 hours, leaving me in a groggy state.&#160; My little AC can\u2019t beat the heat, but it can hold it off a bit.&#160; Even though the temperature in the breezeway outside my windows reached 130\u00b0, it only reached 85\u00b0 at my desk.&#160; I am current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have chores and errands.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:12 (average 4:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-08-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Irene Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"27HurTrack2\" alt=\"27HurTrack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/27HurTrack2.gif\" width=\"768\" height=\"496\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stay safe, please.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Lefty Blog Friends Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In our fantasy football league, I have reduced the size to eight players, and we now have five.&#160; Tomorrow, I\u2019ll be opening up the league to the general public, so if you want to play, this is your last chance.&#160; Go to nfl.com and sign up for an ID, if you don\u2019t already have one.&#160; Then go to fantasy football.&#160; Our league ID is 324380, and the password is endthegop.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Countdown<\/a>: Keith interviews Bernie Sanders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uw6hILEK8bA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As I have said for years, this is the plan that makes sense.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/08\/26\/1010851\/-Campaign-to-recall-Michigan-Governor-Rick-Snyder-passes-50-of-requiredsignatures\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Since the beginning of July, the extremely grassroots campaign to recall Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, <a href=\"http:\/\/firericksnyder.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">FireRickSnyder.org<\/a>, has gathered more than half of the 806,522 signatures required to trigger a recall election in February 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Every single signature has been gathered by a volunteer. All 83 county captains are volunteers. Their website is built and maintained by volunteers. The founders of the organization, who are also volunteers, have no political experience and simply met each other online in March. Almost all of them have jobs and are doing this in their spare time.<\/p>\n<p>But they are pushing through anyway, and the recall election might actually happen.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully support these courageous Michiganders.&#160; Obama, watch and learn!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2011\/08\/26-9\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Arizona is suing the U.S. government, questioning the constitutionality of a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In Arizona, Republicans want to make voting while Latino a crime.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/08\/26\/christine-odonnell-book-tour_n_938531.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Christine O&#8217;Donnell Book Signing Draws Just Five People.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I suppose five was all she could \u2026umm\u2026 conjure up. \ud83d\ude44<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"27Cartoon\" alt=\"27Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/27Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I slept for 14 hours, leaving me in a groggy state.&#160; My little AC can\u2019t beat the heat, but it can hold it off a bit.&#160; Even though the temperature in the breezeway outside my windows reached 130\u00b0, it only reached 85\u00b0 at my desk.&#160; I am current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have chores <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/open-thread8272011\/' 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-5697","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\/5697","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=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}