{"id":8117,"date":"2012-06-22T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2012-06-22T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:01:57","slug":"open-thread6222012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/open-thread6222012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/22\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

My apartment reached 104\u00b0 yesterday, but it wasn\u2019t so bad, because it was one day only.  When the heat wave lasts longer, it\u2019s far worse, because the building never cools between days.  Today I need to chase down the pain meds I was supposed to get early this week.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 5:09 (average 5:52).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>You’d Be Really Surprised To See How Medicare Measures Up To HMOs <\/p>\n

\"22Medicare\"<\/p>\n

Republicans’ purpose in privatizing Medicare is converting benefits to overhead and profit.  Benefits do nothing to help the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Conservative donors are in for a big weekend: \u201cBoth Mitt Romney and billionaire industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch are holding hush-hush events<\/a> with wealthy donors designed to keep the dollars coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is where Rmoney\u2019s Etch-a-Sketch is programmed.  I wonder if Scalia and Thomas are attending the Koch fundraiser AGAIN.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>A Payoff from Obamacare<\/p>\n

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

Progressives should take note of the extent to which Alan Grayson supports Obamacare, despite his desire for a single payer system.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"22Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

A Republican Holiday<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My apartment reached 104\u00b0 yesterday, but it wasn\u2019t so bad, because it was one day only.  When the heat wave lasts longer, it\u2019s far worse, because the building never cools between days.  Today I need to chase down the pain meds I was supposed to get early this week.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears […]<\/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-8117","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\/8117","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=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}