{"id":10225,"date":"2009-10-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-07T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:51:28","slug":"october-7-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/08\/october-7-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 7 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, before we get to the links from around California, I want to point to a diary here<\/a>.  Right-wing anti-marriage equality activists are trying to take away domestic partnership rights in Washington state.  Please consider contributing to the campaign. You can do so at their website<\/a> or on the Calitics ActBlue page<\/a>. Now, to the Links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The CoCo Times has a report on Bill Clinton campaigning for John Garamendi<\/a>. Not that Garamendi will need much help here, he’s a huge favorite. Perhaps that is why the event wasn’t particularly close to the district. David Harmer, the Republican “candidate”, lobbed bombs about the location and that Clinton’s appearance indicated weakness. I (Brian) don’t buy it, the event can only be considered a positive for Garamendi as he does his victory lap towards Congress.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chris at LiberalOC is pretty upset about the Jerry Brown\/Mike Ramos thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The tourism industry has been hit very hard by the economic crisis. Hotel defaults are rising rapidly<\/a>, and more foreclosures look likely.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Get ready to be scared! Boogah-Boogah. Scientists from Rice University published a paper arguing that the Pacific Earthquake in Sumatra might have weakened the San Andreas fault<\/a>. The article was published in Nature<\/i>. Nonetheless, the authors aren’t sure if the weakness will make itself known in any of our lifetimes, so don’t head for the bunkers yet.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Timm Herdt looks at an interesting measure that could end up on the ballot in 2010: a measure to legalize and tax the sale of marijuana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, before we get to the links from around California, I want to point to a diary here<\/a>.  Right-wing anti-marriage equality activists are trying to take away domestic partnership rights in Washington state.  Please consider contributing to the campaign. You can do so at their website<\/a> or on the Calitics ActBlue page<\/a>. Now, to the Links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The CoCo Times has a report on Bill Clinton campaigning for John Garamendi<\/a>. Not that Garamendi will need much help here, he’s a huge favorite. Perhaps that is why the event wasn’t particularly close to the district. David Harmer, the Republican “candidate”, lobbed bombs about the location and that Clinton’s appearance indicated weakness. I (Brian) don’t buy it, the event can only be considered a positive for Garamendi as he does his victory lap towards Congress.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chris at LiberalOC is pretty upset about the Jerry Brown\/Mike Ramos thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The tourism industry has been hit very hard by the economic crisis. Hotel defaults are rising rapidly<\/a>, and more foreclosures look likely.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Get ready to be scared! Boogah-Boogah. Scientists from Rice University published a paper arguing that the Pacific Earthquake in Sumatra might have weakened the San Andreas fault<\/a>. The article was published in Nature<\/i>. Nonetheless, the authors aren’t sure if the weakness will make itself known in any of our lifetimes, so don’t head for the bunkers yet.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Timm Herdt looks at an interesting measure that could end up on the ballot in 2010: a measure to legalize and tax the sale of marijuana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2EV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}