{"id":7120,"date":"2012-02-14T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2012-02-14T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T08:00:22","slug":"open-thread2142012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/open-thread2142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/14\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent most of the day doing prep work for today.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today is a volunteer day for me in prison.  I will return home late, having missed a sleep cycle, so there may be no new articles on Wednesday, and if there are, they may be late.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:13 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>In Which States Can Ellen Get Fired For Being Gay?<\/p>\n

\"14ellen-states\"<\/p>\n

That\u2019s obscene!  To correct this, we need to clean out Republicans at the state level.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>Seven members of a Midwest militia group accused of plotting to overthrow the government are in Federal Court in Detroit for the start of their trial, in which jurors will decide whether federal authorities prevented an attack by homegrown extremists or simply made too much of the boasts of weekend warriors who had pledged to "take our nation back."<\/p>\n

Opening statements were set for Monday in the trial of the militia members, known as Hutaree, who are charged with conspiring to commit sedition, or rebellion, as well as weapon crimes.<\/p>\n

I guess this is what Republicans mean when they call for Second Amendment solutions.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>In a bid to fast-track approval<\/a> of the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Senate Republicans plan to attach an amendment mandating the pipeline\u2019s construction onto a must-pass highway funding bill. The amendment \u2014 developed by Sens. John Hoeven, Richard Lugar, and David Vitter \u2014 is but the latest congressional push to advance TransCanada\u2019s $7 billion project, which was rejected by President Obama last month.<\/p>\n

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has publicly raised objection to the measure, arguing that it will ultimately \u201ckill the bill<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you have not called both of your Senators to demand this be rejected, please do.  Republicans are holding hundreds of highway jobs hostage to blackmail America.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I spent most of the day doing prep work for today.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today is a volunteer day for me in prison.  I will return home late, having missed a sleep cycle, so there may be no new articles on Wednesday, and if there are, they may be late. Jig Zone Puzzle: […]<\/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-7120","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\/7120","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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}