{"id":6983,"date":"2012-02-03T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2012-02-04T00:04:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T08:04:52","slug":"open-thread242012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/open-thread242012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/4\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went to my barber, who was still out sick.  When I returned, I did my research for the day and enjoyed an extra long sleep cycle, because multiple trips up and down the stairs carrying laundry always tires me.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today a month\u2019s supply of groceries will be delivered in the late morning.  Unpacking and putting it all away will take several hours.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:59 (average 4:30).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Truthdig<\/a>: <\/font>One of the most overlooked ironies today is that Israel is threatening military action to prevent Iran from continuing the same clandestine route to nuclear weapons that Israel took, just as Israeli planes destroyed nuclear reactors in Syria and Iraq to prevent those countries from following Israel\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

While I support taking steps for keeping Iran from becoming armed with nuclear weapons, I also think that equal measures should be employed against Israel, until Israel gives up their nuclear weapons and submits to IAEA inspections.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>\u2018Daily Show\u2019 asks Gov. Rick Scott to take drug test<\/p>\n

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I bet that if Scott peed in the cup it would be 40 proof.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Think Progress Green reported that Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN), joined the oil industry in lobbying Congress on behalf of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline<\/a>, using taxpayer dollars. Although the proposed pipeline does not go through Indiana, and few, if any, Indiana workers are expected to be employed in its construction, the state\u2019s DC representatives received $66,000 from Indiana taxpayers to lobby Congress in the fourth quarter of 2011. <\/p>\n

I would hope that Indiana has a law against the misappropriation of taxpayer funds to pursue a partisan political agenda.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I went to my barber, who was still out sick.  When I returned, I did my research for the day and enjoyed an extra long sleep cycle, because multiple trips up and down the stairs carrying laundry always tires me.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today a month\u2019s supply of groceries will be delivered in […]<\/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-6983","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\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}