{"id":7776,"date":"2012-05-16T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2012-05-16T09:56:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:56:44","slug":"open-thread5162012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/open-thread5162012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/16\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the temperature outside did not reach up to 80\u00b0.  However, with accumulated heat radiating from my walls, the temperature at my desk has not yet reached down to 80\u00b0, so I need one more day of posting only this Open Thread.  I\u2019m current with replies and hope to be back to normal tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:16 (average 4:68).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Maher Issues A Wake-Up Call For Your Lazy Friends<\/p>\n

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Maher has hit on the tragedy of US political life today.  People who don\u2019t vote and people who vote uninformed may yet be the death of this Republic.<\/font><\/p>\n

From KGW<\/a>: <\/font>Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith will face off in the November election for Mayor of Portland.<\/p>\n

Eileen Brady, one of the front-runners for most of the campaign, appeared headed to a third-place finish…<\/p>\n

…In other big races, Ellen Rosenblum defeated Dwight Holden in the Democratic primary race for Oregon Attorney General.<\/p>\n

As you know, I was an Eileen Brady donor and supporter.  Given her loss, I now endorse Jeff Smith.  The AG race is noteworthy, because, as a US attorney Holden sought to prosecute legal distributors of medical marijuana, while Rosenblum supports medical marijuana and promises to make enforcement of criminal marijuana laws her lowest priority.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC: Boycott Facebook!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

These are two of the people trying to buy the US for the 1% by putting Republicans in power. Vote against them with your dollars.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday the temperature outside did not reach up to 80\u00b0.  However, with accumulated heat radiating from my walls, the temperature at my desk has not yet reached down to 80\u00b0, so I need one more day of posting only this Open Thread.  I\u2019m current with replies and hope to be back to normal tomorrow. Jig […]<\/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-7776","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\/7776","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=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}