{"id":9574,"date":"2012-11-23T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2012-11-23T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:37:10","slug":"open-thread11232012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/open-thread11232012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/23\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I overdid it, working my butt off cooking for folks and wrapping myself around too much bird (It\u2019s a TomCat thing.).  Since it\u2019s a slow news day, and since I\u2019m really pooped, I\u2019m taking the day off except this Open Thread.  I am current with replies, though, and tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 5:54 (average 6:47).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Four Short Sentences Explain Who Killed The Twinkie<\/p>\n

\"23twinkie\"<\/p>\n

As I have said before, this is a classic textbook case of the Vulture Capitalism promoted by the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>A Florida police detective has resigned after telling colleagues he would volunteer to assassinate President Obama and other members of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

And Republicans keep saying "Who us?" every time one of them commits a violent atrocity in response to their hate mongering.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Chicago Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>But I’ve got a suggestion for cutting short the GOP angst: Sarah Palin for president in 2016.<\/p>\n

This clown actually means it! Go for it, with Batshit Bachman for VP!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"23Cartoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I overdid it, working my butt off cooking for folks and wrapping myself around too much bird (It\u2019s a TomCat thing.).  Since it\u2019s a slow news day, and since I\u2019m really pooped, I\u2019m taking the day off except this Open Thread.  I am current with replies, though, and tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: […]<\/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-9574","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\/9574","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=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}