{"id":8306,"date":"2012-07-09T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2012-07-09T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T18:10:13","slug":"open-thread792012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/open-thread792012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was just miserable here, and I got very little sleep.  It will be about 5\u00b0 cooler today, but the walls here are still radiating heat from yesterday.  I\u2019m pushing to get the blog up, before the heat of the day hits, because tomorrow I have physical therapy and  may post only an Open Thread.  I\u2019m current with replies, but was brief.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:46 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What The People Crying For A Repeal Of Obamacare Are Failing To Grasp<\/p>\n

\"9hcr\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans consider that wonderful. Bankruptcies leave the carrion of wrecked families that feeds the 1%,<\/font><\/p>\n

From San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font>Protesters unfurled a \u201cKoch Kills\u201d banner and shouted \u201cshame on you\u201d as wealthy donors to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rounded a corner in Range Rovers, Denalis and other luxury vehicles on their way to a fundraiser at the Southampton, New York beach house of David Koch, an energy billionaire.<\/p>\n

Details about yesterday\u2019s $50,000 per-person dinner were spare. Brothers David and Charles Koch closely guard their privacy and prefer to spend their political dollars through non- profit groups that don\u2019t disclose their donors.<\/p>\n

Evil is afoot from the richest Koch Suckers in the world!  Kudos to the protestors!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Current Republican State [CO] Senator Kevin Grantham took on Wilders\u2019s message that the West \u201cshould forbid the construction of new mosques.\u201d Asked about the proposed ban, Grantham told the Statesman<\/a><\/font> he was for considering it:<\/font><\/p>\n

You know, we\u2019d have to hear more on that, because, as he said, mosques are not churches like we would think of churches. They think of mosques more as a foothold into a society, as a foothold into a community, more in the cultural and in the nationalistic sense<\/strong><\/span>. Our churches \u2014 we don\u2019t feel that way, they\u2019re places of worship, and mosques are simply not that<\/strong><\/span>, and we need to take that into account when approving construction of those.<\/font><\/p>\n

The notion that Mosques are not \u201cplaces of worship\u201d is an absurd extension of Wilders\u2019s bigotry. <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

If Islam is not a religion, neither is Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

Yesterday was just miserable here, and I got very little sleep.  It will be about 5\u00b0 cooler today, but the walls here are still radiating heat from yesterday.  I\u2019m pushing to get the blog up, before the heat of the day hits, because tomorrow I have physical therapy and  may post only an Open Thread.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-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\/8306","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=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}