{"id":7994,"date":"2012-06-09T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2012-06-09T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T18:07:16","slug":"open-thread692012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/open-thread692012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I am researching and writing, I am also doing laundry, my least favorite household chore.  On a scale of one to ten, I really hate laundry!  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:31 (average 4:26).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Warning! This Sign Will Definitely Offend Some Of Your Friends<\/p>\n

\"9bigotry\"<\/p>\n

And hate hiding behind the Bible is still Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The suicide rate among the nation\u2019s active-duty military personnel has spiked this year, eclipsing the number of troops dying in battle and on pace to set a record annual high since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago, the Pentagon said Friday. <\/p>\n

Never before has there been more telling evidence that the the war in Afghanistan has already failed.<\/font><\/p>\n

From WSET<\/a>: <\/font>Members of the House of Representatives voted Friday to protect their own office expense accounts from budget cuts.<\/p>\n

The bipartisan 307-102 vote came on a $3.3 billion measure funding congressional operations.<\/p>\n

Republicans controlling the House have been trying to cut domestic agency budgets by about 5 percent. But when it came to their own staff, travel and office expenses, GOP leaders opted to freeze their $574 million budget.<\/p>\n

They want cuts for everyone else, but they consider themselves entitled, in spite of taking record time off.  What hypocrites!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"9Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I am researching and writing, I am also doing laundry, my least favorite household chore.  On a scale of one to ten, I really hate laundry!  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:31 (average 4:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From […]<\/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-7994","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\/7994","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=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}