{"id":8204,"date":"2012-06-30T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2012-06-30T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:02:40","slug":"open-thread6302012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/open-thread6302012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/30\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night my COPD flared up, so I spent most of the night coughing and had almost no sleep.  I\u2019m current with replies, albeit brief.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 5:02).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>She Is The Reason You Can Even Read This Headline.<\/p>\n

\"30teacher\"<\/p>\n

Republicans show their gratitude by cutting her pay, laying her off, and taking away her right to bargain collectively.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>While Colorado burns, conservatives have looked for ways to blame it on President Obama. <\/p>\n

Some of the same people who have bashed the president as a big government, big spending liberal now say a wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes in the conservative stronghold of Colorado Springs can be blamed on the president because he has been too slow to spend money to beef up the federal fleet of air tankers.<\/p>\n

The meme began more than a week ago when pundit Michelle Malkin, who lives in Colorado Springs, wrote a piece for the National Review Online titled \u201cObama Bureaucrats Are Fueling Wildfires.\u201d [win-nuts delinked]<\/p>\n

WTF?!!? Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Political Freak Show<\/a>: A wonderful place for Republicans!<\/font><\/p>\n

\"30Iran\"<\/font><\/p>\n

GOPers, bon voyage!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"30Cartoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had just turned 21.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night my COPD flared up, so I spent most of the night coughing and had almost no sleep.  I\u2019m current with replies, albeit brief.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 5:02).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: She Is The Reason You […]<\/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-8204","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\/8204","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=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}