{"id":10680,"date":"2009-12-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:30:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:30:18","slug":"december-21-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/december-21-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 21 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arnold may not agree with President Obama on everything, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/12\/20\/obama-gets-an-a-for-effort-from-schwarzenegger\/\">but he likes his moxie<\/a>. Asked on CNN, what he thought of the new presidency, Arnold said, &#8220;He&#8217;s out there with tremendous energy and he&#8217;s selling his ideas. And he has great enthusiasm there. He&#8217;s a great speaker, a great communicator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Good news for Tiger Woods! Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/politics\/stories\/PE_News_Local_S_polnote21.3fde91b.html\">Joe Baca says he will bring back his bill honoring him<\/a> when he &#8220;cleans up his act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Skelton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap21-2009dec21,0,6252132.column\">likes Speaker Elect John Perez<\/a>, but notes that he has a lot of obstacles to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalPERS has <a href=\"http:\/\/calpensions.com\/2009\/12\/21\/calpers-earnings-fall-behind-other-pension-funds-2\/\">made a bit of a comeback<\/a>. After losing $100 billion, they made back $40 and now stand at just over $200 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arnold may not agree with President Obama on everything, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/12\/20\/obama-gets-an-a-for-effort-from-schwarzenegger\/\">but he likes his moxie<\/a>. Asked on CNN, what he thought of the new presidency, Arnold said, &#8220;He&#8217;s out there with tremendous energy and he&#8217;s selling his ideas. And he has great enthusiasm there. He&#8217;s a great speaker, a great communicator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Good news for Tiger Woods! Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/politics\/stories\/PE_News_Local_S_polnote21.3fde91b.html\">Joe Baca says he will bring back his bill honoring him<\/a> when he &#8220;cleans up his act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Skelton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap21-2009dec21,0,6252132.column\">likes Speaker Elect John Perez<\/a>, but notes that he has a lot of obstacles to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalPERS has <a href=\"http:\/\/calpensions.com\/2009\/12\/21\/calpers-earnings-fall-behind-other-pension-funds-2\/\">made a bit of a comeback<\/a>. After losing $100 billion, they made back $40 and now stand at just over $200 billion.<\/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-10680","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-2Mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","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=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}