{"id":624,"date":"2010-02-15T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2010-02-15T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:52:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2152010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2152010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/15\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I finally caught up completely on replies and visits.  Hopefully, I won\u2019t be as swamped in March as I am this month.  My dinner for my disabled neighbor went well.  I served steak, homemade noodles and cheese, Caesar salad, pie, and dark chocolate.  Kindness to those who can\u2019t do for themselves feels good.  I also ate better than I probably would have had I been cooking just for me.  I have some errands to run either today or tomorrow, so we\u2019ll see how the day works out.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 3:56.  To do it, Click Here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Short Takes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lizard Cheney claims<\/a> that holding civilian trials rather than military tribunals following the WTC bombing in 1993 is the cause of the 9\/11\/2001 attack.  She is ignoring the infamous \u2018OK, you\u2019ve covered your butt\u2019 memo.  I find her claim ludicrous, because we have no evidence that AQ had begun to plan the 9\/11 attack in1993.  Not only is the torture she craves ineffectual, but also, how could her intended victims reveal what they did not even know?<\/p>\n

Congrats to our Canadian friends!  Yesterday Alex Bilodeau won<\/a> the gold medal in moguls, Canada\u2019s first gold medal ever won on their home soil.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Oregon celebrated<\/a> our 151st birthday.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n

\"Cartoon<\/a>
See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Keefe<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

OGIM!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I finally caught up completely on replies and visits.  Hopefully, I won\u2019t be as swamped in March as I am this month.  My dinner for my disabled neighbor went well.  I served steak, homemade noodles and cheese, Caesar salad, pie, and dark chocolate.  Kindness to those who can\u2019t do for themselves feels good.  I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","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\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}