{"id":9363,"date":"2009-07-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-13T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T23:26:00","slug":"july-13-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/14\/july-13-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"July 13 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_12821604?source=rss\">interesting story<\/a> out of the race to replace Ted Lieu (AD-53). Apparently two of the candidates were in a relationship years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 One of the less discussed renewable energy sources is geothermal. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2020638.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">some Californians worry<\/a> that it will create seismic activity. At this point, it is clear that such projects do cause small earthquakes, but the company testing the idea claims they can limit them to 2.3 quakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 For the last few years, toxics in children&#8217;s products and some furniture has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-oe-long13-2009jul13,0,5691419.story?track=rss\">big topic of debate<\/a>. Those bills have continued to flow, especially from Sen. Mark Leno. It turns out it takes a few years to undo damage that we legislated into existence a generation ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More immigrant bashing. This time it&#8217;s from people who have made well, an obsession, of it. &nbsp;The nativists plan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-me-illegal-immigration13-2009jul13,0,1536154.story?track=rss\">putting an initiative to end all services for undocumented immigrants AND their US Citizen children<\/a>. They claim birth isn&#8217;t really a reason to become a citizen. Wonder what the Native Americans have to say about all this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_12821604?source=rss\">interesting story<\/a> out of the race to replace Ted Lieu (AD-53). Apparently two of the candidates were in a relationship years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 One of the less discussed renewable energy sources is geothermal. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2020638.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">some Californians worry<\/a> that it will create seismic activity. At this point, it is clear that such projects do cause small earthquakes, but the company testing the idea claims they can limit them to 2.3 quakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 For the last few years, toxics in children&#8217;s products and some furniture has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-oe-long13-2009jul13,0,5691419.story?track=rss\">big topic of debate<\/a>. Those bills have continued to flow, especially from Sen. Mark Leno. It turns out it takes a few years to undo damage that we legislated into existence a generation ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More immigrant bashing. This time it&#8217;s from people who have made well, an obsession, of it. &nbsp;The nativists plan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-me-illegal-immigration13-2009jul13,0,1536154.story?track=rss\">putting an initiative to end all services for undocumented immigrants AND their US Citizen children<\/a>. They claim birth isn&#8217;t really a reason to become a citizen. Wonder what the Native Americans have to say about all this&#8230;<\/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-9363","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-2r1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}