{"id":8507,"date":"2012-08-01T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:51:40","slug":"open-thread812012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/open-thread812012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/1\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the urologist yesterday.  The kidney stone is 6mm, bigger than I thought.  The rough part is that the office is almost half a mile from the bus stop and over a hill to boot.  Fortunately, for the future, he has a partner, who is further away but accessible.  When I got home, I was so pooped that I forgot to pull the Top Commentators data for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report.  Mea culpa.  I\u2019m running late today, because I have been collecting all the data needed to write tomorrow\u2019s monthly report.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine, albeit too hot.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:45 (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>Who Takes $30,275,229 A Day, Burns It, And Then Works To Deny You Health Coverage?<\/p>\n

\"1GOPHouse\"<\/p>\n

I guess Agent Orange thinks that jobs are related to regulating women’s plumbing.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama is struggling to persuade voters that he deserves to win re-election based on his handling of the economy, but his empathy and personal appeal give him an edge over Mitt Romney in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, according to Quinnipiac University\/New York Times\/CBS News polls. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s good news, but it’s still a bit early, and polls will be more meaningful after the conventions.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>An Iowa campaign aide for former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sued the Minnesota congresswoman and her senior campaign aides on Monday, alleging an official stole a private email list and that she was blamed for its use.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit filed by Barb Heki claims that Bachmann\u2019s Iowa campaign chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson, took the list from Heki\u2019s private computer to promote Bachmann\u2019s candidacy among Christian home-school advocates before the Iowa caucuses. Heki was hired to coordinate home-school supporters for Bachmann\u2019s Iowa campaign.<\/p>\n

Since Republican operatives are criminally unethical in dealing with each other, only a fool would believe they will not be even worse to voters.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"1Cartoon\"<\/font><\/p>\n

And Republicans still pretend they don\u2019t exist.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the urologist yesterday.  The kidney stone is 6mm, bigger than I thought.  The rough part is that the office is almost half a mile from the bus stop and over a hill to boot.  Fortunately, for the future, he has a partner, who is further away but accessible.  When I got home, […]<\/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-8507","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\/8507","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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}