{"id":8295,"date":"2012-07-08T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2012-07-08T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:28:19","slug":"open-thread782012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/open-thread782012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/8\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I did manage to get a little sleep.&#160; It only reached 86\u00b0 outside, but the temperature in the enclosed breezeway outside my only windows reached 132\u00b0, and at my desk, 99\u00b0.&#160; My walls are still radiating heat, but my little 250W AC had dropped it to 91\u00b0 today at sunrise.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is uncertain, because today is forecast to be even hotter.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:08 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-08-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/george-mcgovern-nails-what-patriotism-is-all-about-in-one-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>George McGovern Nails What Patriotism Is All About In One Sentence<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Sen. George McGovern\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sen. George McGovern\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8patriotism.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The blind acceptance (with inferred obedience) of which McGovern speaks is NOT patriotism. It is nationalism. The Republican lie that such nationalism is patriotism is an obstacle to authentic patriotism.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/08\/world\/asia\/us-grants-special-ally-status-to-afghanistan.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The United States declared Afghanistan a major, non-NATO ally on Saturday, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton personally delivering the news of Afghanistan\u2019s entry into a club that includes Israel, Japan, Pakistan and other close Asian and Middle Eastern allies. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While the intent of so doing is to ease troop withdrawal is well intended, I consider this a mistake by the Obama administration, because it is wasted on the corrupt puppet, Hamid Karzai, whom GW Bush installed there only because he was already in thrall to Big Gas and Oil, as a Unocal employee.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/fischer-government-should-mandate-everyone-attend-church-and-tax-those-who-dont\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Fischer: Mandate That Everyone Attend Church And Tax Those Who Don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tm2EEvxVmho?rel=0\" frameborder=\"&lt;\/p&gt;&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color=\" width=\"640\" #0000ff?=\"#0000ff?\">This is want Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians mean by &amp;ampquotfreedom of religion&quot;.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is want Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians mean by &quot;freedom of religion&quot;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"8Cartoon\" alt=\"8Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/8Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did manage to get a little sleep.&#160; It only reached 86\u00b0 outside, but the temperature in the enclosed breezeway outside my only windows reached 132\u00b0, and at my desk, 99\u00b0.&#160; My walls are still radiating heat, but my little 250W AC had dropped it to 91\u00b0 today at sunrise.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/open-thread782012\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,35,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-report","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-religion","category-45-id","category-35-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}