{"id":8715,"date":"2012-08-31T09:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8715"},"modified":"2012-08-31T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T17:02:57","slug":"open-thread8212012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/open-thread8212012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/31\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went for an ultrasound exam on my bad leg.  The lab was over half a mile from the bus stop.  When I arrived I learned that my doctor had screwed up and sent me to a place that does not accept my Medicare Advantage plan.  I walked all that way for nothing.  Grrr!  I\u2019m blogging normally today and am current on replies.  Tomorrow appears routine, but I\u2019ll be collecting data for Sunday\u2019s Monthly Report.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Yesterday\u2019s took me 3:18 (average 4:41).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Dear Paul Ryan, When Reagan’s Budget Guy Says Your Math Is Whacked, You’ve Got A Problem<\/p>\n

\"31Stockman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It increases the deficit, slashes the safety net, steals your life-long investment in Social Security and Medicare, and raises your taxes, all to give massive tax cuts to the 1%, aka the job exporters.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Daily Page<\/a>: <\/font>Scott Walker says he’s a progressive.<\/p>\n

If Walker, Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan, is a progressive, then I’m a beauty queen.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Let\u2019s start with Limbaugh. On Monday, the conservative radio host told his audience that the government\u2019s weather scientists had colluded to mess with the GOP\u2019s carefully choreographed show. <\/p>\n

After assuring listeners that he was  not alleging a conspiracy, Limbaugh  said [Limbarf delinked], \u201cThe hurricane center is the regime; the hurricane center is the Commerce Department. It\u2019s the government. It\u2019s Obama.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sheeple who believe Limbarf, or Beck, or Hannity, or O’Lielly, etc. are stupid enough to believe anything.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"31Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went for an ultrasound exam on my bad leg.  The lab was over half a mile from the bus stop.  When I arrived I learned that my doctor had screwed up and sent me to a place that does not accept my Medicare Advantage plan.  I walked all that way for nothing.  Grrr!  […]<\/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-8715","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\/8715","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=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}