{"id":8374,"date":"2012-07-15T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2012-07-15T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:49:45","slug":"open-thread7152012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/open-thread7152012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/15\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the heat was severe and set of my COPD.&#160; I got almost no sleep last night and feel far too wiped out to do the research needed for a slate of articles.&#160; Therefore, this will be today\u2019s only article.&#160; I\u2019m not current with replies, but will catch up ASAP, hopefully after getting some sleep.&#160; Tomorrow I have an appointment with the doctor way across town, and Tuesday I have physical therapy, so my posting will be intermittent at best until Wednesday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s tool me 4:02 (average 5:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-15-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\/hilarious-bill-maher-on-why-republicans-act-exactly-like-14-year-old-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>HILARIOUS! Bill Maher On Why Republicans Act Exactly Like 14-Year-Old Boys<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kAVaIXosvw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Jonathan Krohn, featured in the second clip in this video, actually renounced conservatism 4 years later! <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/08\/i_was_a_right_wing_child_star\/\"><em>Source<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Maher said it all: If a 14 year old can deliver your message, you&#8217;re a child.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/07\/republic-of-the-united-states-of-america-united-states-corporation-randi-johnson.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>A Republican state Senate candidate in Iowa has decided to bow out of the race and become a U.S. senator of an alternative form of government. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter released Friday, Randi Shannon informs supporters of her new position as \u201cU.S. Senator in the Republic of the United States of America.\u201d You see, according to Shannon, the U.S. government has been acting unlawfully as the \u201c\u2018official government,\u2019 which clearly it is not!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now where did I store that tin-foil hat graphic? \ud83d\ude44<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1fPQ3AuQ1kY&amp;feature=player_embedded#\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Hat-Tip Phyllis): <\/font>You&#8217;re So Bain!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1fPQ3AuQ1kY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Classic!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"15Cartoon\" alt=\"15Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/15Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the heat was severe and set of my COPD.&#160; I got almost no sleep last night and feel far too wiped out to do the research needed for a slate of articles.&#160; Therefore, this will be today\u2019s only article.&#160; I\u2019m not current with replies, but will catch up ASAP, hopefully after getting some sleep.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/open-thread7152012\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8374","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\/8374","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=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}