{"id":661,"date":"2010-02-25T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-02-25T04:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:11:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2252010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2252010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/25\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I fell behind due to volunteer work and running errands.  Today is my volunteer day in the prison.  If time permits, I\u2019ll try to do some catch-up before I leave.  Tomorrow\u2019s posts may be late because I will return home late and exhausted tonight.<\/p>\n

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

It took me 3:45.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/p>\n

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

Are democrats growing gonads?  Yesterday the Jobs Bill passed the Senate, and the House stripped the Health Insurance cartel of exemption from antitrust laws.<\/p>\n

I had heard rumblings that Olympia snow had gotten her panties in a bunch over not being invited to the health care summit.  Obama Invited her, and she DECLINED<\/a>.  He also invited<\/a> Oregon\u2019s Ron Wyden, who will attend.  Wyden has championed choice for health care consumers.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty wants to repeal<\/a> the federal law that requires ER treatment  regardless of ability to pay.<\/p>\n

It seems that McConJob\u2019s primary opponent has gender identity issues:<\/p>\n

\"Hayworth\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

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

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

Have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I fell behind due to volunteer work and running errands.  Today is my volunteer day in the prison.  If time permits, I\u2019ll try to do some catch-up before I leave.  Tomorrow\u2019s posts may be late because I will return home late and exhausted tonight. Jig Zone Puzzle: It took me 3:45.  To do it, […]<\/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-661","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\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}