{"id":1197,"date":"2008-11-18T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2008-11-18T08:09:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T13:09:15","slug":"tuesday-open-thread-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/11\/18\/tuesday-open-thread-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much in the news this morning.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/17\/AR2008111703537.html?hpid=topnews\">Bush is &#8216;burrowing&#8217; political appointees into Civil Service positions<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/11\/17\/lieberman-likely-to-retai_n_144517.html\">Lieberman is likely to keep his chairmanship<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/fnc\/ed_hill_to_leave_fox_news_channel_100945.asp\">The terrorist fist bump bimbo has been cut loose by Fux News<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/11\/obama_advisers_no_charges_like.php\">Obama&#8217;s DOJ isn&#8217;t likely to bother with piddly shit like prosecuting torturers<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/11\/denying_congress_siegelman_doc.php\">Bush&#8217;s DOJ is blowing off yet another Congressional subpoena<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/11\/budget_cuts_threaten_enrollmen.html\">Our governor is about to budget-cut SUNY into oblivion<\/a> (and he wants to kill the hospital side of where I work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2008\/11\/17\/ap5703015.html\">yet another round of Medicaid cuts<\/a>).  Never fear, he&#8217;s also going to keep things fair and balanced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonbanner.com\/local\/ci_10991941\">cutting money for schools, too<\/a>.  We have an inch or so of snow on the ground here in Syracuse, with another few expected during the day.  And I have to force myself off to another mind-numbing day of work (while I still have a job) where I&#8217;ll try to keep from snapping and jumping out my ninth floor window.  Same old same old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much in the news this morning. Bush is &#8216;burrowing&#8217; political appointees into Civil Service positions. Lieberman is likely to keep his chairmanship. The terrorist fist bump bimbo has been cut loose by Fux News. Obama&#8217;s DOJ isn&#8217;t likely to bother with piddly shit like prosecuting torturers. Bush&#8217;s DOJ is blowing off yet another Congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}