{"id":8571,"date":"2012-08-10T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2012-08-10T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:17:12","slug":"open-thread8102012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/open-thread8102012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/10\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the cardiologist told me she thinks I may have had a \u2018silent\u2019 heart attack, so I\u2019ll need to go back twice later this month, once for a stress test and once for an echocardiogram.&#160; My COPD flared badly, and I\u2019m worn out.&#160; I\u2019ll be intermittent for the next month, because I\u2019ll have a lot of medical appointments to deal with.&#160; My plan for today is to post just this Open Thread, catch up on a huge backlog of comments here, and make the rounds of sites where I post links to clean up my message backlogs there.&#160; Then tomorrow, I hope to blog normally.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tomorrow I will be the featured guest in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/liesmycountrytoldme\" target=\"_blank\">Lies My Country Told Me<\/a> Blogtalk Radio show.&#160; If you\u2019d like to listen in, it will be at 2 PM EDT (11 AM PDT).&#160; Just click the link.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 5:27 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-10-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\/whoa-did-fdr-call-it-or-what\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Whoa: Did FDR Call It Or What?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUZGkNAUSvY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">FDR was psychic. He predicted Willard.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/10\/world\/asia\/us-moves-to-address-agent-orange-contamination-in-vietnam.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Forty years after the United States stopped spraying herbicides in the jungles of Southeast Asia in the hopes of denying cover to Vietcong fighters and North Vietnamese troops, an air base here is one of about two dozen former American sites that remain polluted with an especially toxic strain of dioxin, the chemical contaminant in Agent Orange that has been linked to cancers, birth defects and other diseases. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, after years of rebuffing Vietnamese requests for assistance in a cleanup, the United States inaugurated its first major effort to address the environmental effects of the long war. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Mitigating that injustice has been far too long in coming. Lets not forget, we also need to clean up and remove the Agent Orange in the House of Representatives.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/10\/trump-will-have-memorable-role-at-gop-convention-aide-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump is set to get a &#8216;unique&#8217; gig at the Republican National Convention in late August, an aide to the real estate titan confirmed on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mr. Trump&#8217;s role will occur at the Tampa Bay Times Forum (site of the convention), though the specifics of the role are not being released at this time. The role, like Mr. Trump, is unique and will be memorable for all those in attendance at the convention and those watching around country. Stay tuned,&quot; Executive Vice President and Special Counsel Michael Cohen told CNN.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL!&#160; Shaving his head, perhaps?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"10Cartoon\" alt=\"10Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the cardiologist told me she thinks I may have had a \u2018silent\u2019 heart attack, so I\u2019ll need to go back twice later this month, once for a stress test and once for an echocardiogram.&#160; My COPD flared badly, and I\u2019m worn out.&#160; I\u2019ll be intermittent for the next month, because I\u2019ll have a lot <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/open-thread8102012\/' 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-8571","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\/8571","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=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}