{"id":8229,"date":"2012-07-02T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2012-07-02T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:43:45","slug":"open-thread722012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/02\/open-thread722012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/2\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

This will probably be a slow week for news.  Even Switch Hit Mitt is on vacation.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I may have only an Open Thread, because I have physical therapy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:47 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Do You Want The Government Making Decisions About Your Health Care?<\/p>\n

\"2Hypocrite\"<\/p>\n

GOP Hypocrite defined!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>The University of Texas, Austin, has agreed to open an inquiry into the flawed parenting study<\/a> conducted by one of its professors, Mark Regnerus. The study appears to have been politically calculated<\/a>, using funding from right-wing foundations<\/a> to produce skewed results portraying gay parenting in a negative light. Over 200 professors and therapists<\/a> have critiqued the study\u2019s analysis and publication. <\/p>\n

This how Republicans do science.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Rupert Murdoch: ‘Doubtful’ That Romney Will Beat Obama In 2012 Election <\/p>\n

I agree with Rupert Murdoch?!!? <\/font>AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"2Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

And the tinfoil hat was born! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will probably be a slow week for news.  Even Switch Hit Mitt is on vacation.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I may have only an Open Thread, because I have physical therapy. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:47 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: […]<\/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-8229","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\/8229","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=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}