{"id":5774,"date":"2011-09-04T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T07:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2011-09-04T00:04:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T07:04:34","slug":"open-thread942011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/04\/open-thread942011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/4\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I attended the draft of our Politics Plus fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.  We ended up with only six players, so it should be lively with lots of waiver claims.  I uninstalled the editing plugin that did not work and installed a new plugin that not only allows you to edit and delete your own comments, but also gives you a rich text graphical interface and the ability to attach files.  It was a hot day, but my little AC handled it, but it was still too hot to sleep.  It was a slow day for news.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I will be trying to beat the heat.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:47 (average 4:13).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>When a reporter asked Palin what she thinks about the current GOP competitors, she answered: "Happy with the field of candidates. I always think that there’s room for more, though, because spirited debate and more competition will allow an even better discourse and more rigorous discourse that the public deserves."<\/p>\n

Horsefeathers!  She\u2019s just trying to keep herself in the spotlight.<\/font><\/p>\n

From San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font>Earlier this week, President Obama announced<\/a> that the EPA would drop efforts to bring ozone limits in line with what science says is safe. Ground ozone is the key ingredient in smog.<\/p>\n

During the Bush administration, scientists said the safe range was 60 – 70 parts per billion. Instead, Bush set the limit at 75 ppb. The Obama administration had promised to reconsider the level, and had made rumblings of doing so until crying uncle last week. The level is still being enforced at the even more permissive 84 ppb.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t begin to imagine what he was thinking.  This is a horrible blunder.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I attended the draft of our Politics Plus fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.  We ended up with only six players, so it should be lively with lots of waiver claims.  I uninstalled the editing plugin that did not work and installed a new plugin that not only allows you to edit and delete […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-31-id","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\/5774","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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}