{"id":7789,"date":"2012-05-18T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:11:07","slug":"open-thread5182012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/open-thread5182012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/18\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday and today my COPD and bursitis have been severe, but since it\u2019s cool, I can publish through that.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have errands to run.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:01 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Three Words In The Bible That Some People Totally Ignore<\/p>\n

\"18Love\"<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s because Republican supply-side pseudo-Christianity is based on hate, fear, and greed, not love.<\/font><\/p>\n

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>A group behind a costly endeavor to field an independent presidential ticket this fall acknowledged Thursday that its efforts to nominate a candidate had failed.<\/p>\n

Americans Elect succeeded in getting on the ballot in 29 states, but none of its prospective candidates<\/a> received the minimum support needed to participate in a Web-based series of primaries that were to be held this month…<\/p>\n

…The top declared candidate, former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, had tallied about 6,300 clicks of support on the Americans Elect website by Thursday \u2013 far short of the minimum 10,000 required.<\/p>\n

From the beginning, this has been a right wing attempt to field a left wing 3rd party candidate to draw votes away from Obama.  Good riddance!<\/font><\/p>\n

From MS-NBC<\/a>: Senators go after corporate miscreants.<\/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

Go!  Go!  Go!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"18Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday and today my COPD and bursitis have been severe, but since it\u2019s cool, I can publish through that.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have errands to run. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:01 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: Three Words In The […]<\/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-7789","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\/7789","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=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}