{"id":8426,"date":"2012-07-21T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2012-07-21T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T18:13:44","slug":"open-thread7212012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/open-thread7212012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/21\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It felt very good to wake up this morning without being in a sweat.  If the cool weather keeps up another couple days, the building will have bled off all the reserve heat.  The Colorado shooting has dominated the news and it\u2019s still too soon for me to have much to day about it, and although Republican attempts to blame Obama and the Democratic Party are beneath contempt, I shall consider them not worthy of response for now.  I have one other article today.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have more work to do in preparation for next week\u2019s volunteer work.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 5:57 (I really stunk)(average 6:07).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>HILARIOUS! Jon Stewart Takes On Romney’s ‘Bain Damage’<\/p>\n

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No doubt about it. He’s Bain damaged!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Capitol Column<\/a>: <\/font>Former Republican President George W. Bush will not attend the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, according to a statement released Friday.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reports that a spokesman for Mr. Bush, Freddy Ford, says the former president has \u201crespectfully declined\u201d the Republican party\u2019s invitation to the national convention where presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is expected to accept the party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n

I bet he got that invitation on the condition that he decline, to spare him the embarrassment of not being invited at all.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Michael Moore<\/a>: <\/font>"I fear anthropologists and historians will look back on us and simply say we were a violent nation, at home and abroad, but in due time human decency won out and the violence ceased, but not before many, many more died and the world had had its fill of us.<\/p>\n

"Thoughts, prayers, and whatever comfort can be found for the victims and their families…"<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michael Moore<\/p>\n

May his fear be unrealized.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"21Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

\u201cYOU PEOPLE\u201d is a 1% euphemism for irritating unworthy underlings that says, \u201cYou\u2019re not one of us.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It felt very good to wake up this morning without being in a sweat.  If the cool weather keeps up another couple days, the building will have bled off all the reserve heat.  The Colorado shooting has dominated the news and it\u2019s still too soon for me to have much to day about it, and […]<\/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-8426","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\/8426","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=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}