{"id":10367,"date":"2009-10-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-29T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T01:29:15","slug":"october-28-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/29\/october-28-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 28 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 eMeg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=50518\">doesn&#8217;t like debates<\/a>. This is certainly interesting, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AVnzTv4ScKM\">she said she&#8217;d like to do three wide-ranging debates in the fall<\/a> just a few months ago. &nbsp;December 21 is coming up soon, Ms. Whitman, but you still have time to fit those debates in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Looks like Meg Whitman won&#8217;t be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_13661566?source=rss\">Technology Execs for Boxer list this year<\/a>, but some big names, including Google&#8217;s Eric Schmidt and Netflix founder Reed Hastings, are on the list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Even San Diegans <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/28\/bn28pot111939\/?metro\">favor medical marijuana dispensaries<\/a>. Meanwhile, the outstanding question on marijuana prosecutions is will the feds drop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=50491\">the pending cases based upon medical marijuana<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Joe Garofoli of the SF Chron has been contributing some great reporting on the Maine marriage measure, especially in relation to last year&#8217;s Prop 8. Today he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=50454\">focusing on the No on 1 team&#8217;s grassroots strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There&#8217;s going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2286670.html\">&#8220;cash for appliances&#8221; program to improve appliance effeciency<\/a> funded by the federal stimulus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 eMeg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=50518\">doesn&#8217;t like debates<\/a>. This is certainly interesting, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AVnzTv4ScKM\">she said she&#8217;d like to do three wide-ranging debates in the fall<\/a> just a few months ago. &nbsp;December 21 is coming up soon, Ms. Whitman, but you still have time to fit those debates in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Looks like Meg Whitman won&#8217;t be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_13661566?source=rss\">Technology Execs for Boxer list this year<\/a>, but some big names, including Google&#8217;s Eric Schmidt and Netflix founder Reed Hastings, are on the list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Even San Diegans <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/28\/bn28pot111939\/?metro\">favor medical marijuana dispensaries<\/a>. Meanwhile, the outstanding question on marijuana prosecutions is will the feds drop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=50491\">the pending cases based upon medical marijuana<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Joe Garofoli of the SF Chron has been contributing some great reporting on the Maine marriage measure, especially in relation to last year&#8217;s Prop 8. Today he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=50454\">focusing on the No on 1 team&#8217;s grassroots strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There&#8217;s going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2286670.html\">&#8220;cash for appliances&#8221; program to improve appliance effeciency<\/a> funded by the federal stimulus.<\/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-10367","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-2Hd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","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=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}