{"id":7871,"date":"2012-05-29T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2012-05-29T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:18:20","slug":"open-thread5292012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/open-thread5292012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/29\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I\u2019ll have at least one good day of blogging, although things are slow after the holiday weekend.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow morning, my podiatrist will be performing routine minor surgery on my foot again, so I may be unable to blog at all, and if I can, it will likely be abbreviated.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:13 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Powerful Bernie Sanders Quote That Has Been Shared Thousands Of Times<\/p>\n

\"29Bernie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank goodness this wise independent supports Obama and the Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>As Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin faces a well deserved recall vote<\/a> next month after stripping public unions of their bargaining rights, voters are discovering the generosity of Diane Hendricks. Ms. Hendricks, the billionaire chairwoman of the nation\u2019s largest roofing and siding wholesaler<\/a>, wrote a check for $500,000 last month to help defend Governor Walker, a Republican, against his Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The eye-popping donation was made possible by a quirk in the state law for recall campaigns. And Ms. Hendricks has never been shy about what she wants. A newly released piece of documentary video<\/a> shows her running into Governor Walker two weeks after he took office in 2011. In what was presumed to have been a private discussion, Ms. Hendricks asked, \u201cAny chance we\u2019ll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions and become a right to work\u201d state? <\/p>\n

The Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan MUST go down!<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: Romney can\u2019t play no-Trump!<\/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

Will he say the same to an endorsement from the KKK?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"29Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I\u2019ll have at least one good day of blogging, although things are slow after the holiday weekend.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow morning, my podiatrist will be performing routine minor surgery on my foot again, so I may be unable to blog at all, and if I can, it will likely be abbreviated. 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-7871","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\/7871","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=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}