{"id":10160,"date":"2013-03-21T01:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2013-03-21T01:06:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:06:32","slug":"open-thread3202013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/open-thread3202013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/20\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news is that Spring has sproinged.  The bad news is that I haven\u2019t and am still down.  I\u2019ll keep you posted.  Happy Lady Day to our Wiccan friends.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 4:48 (average 6:00).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Guardian<\/a>: <\/font>At the conservative gathering CPAC last week the enormity of this media world was remarkable. The hall was packed with talk radio shows, conservative publishers and authors signing their latest books, many of which were bestsellers. This is a world where it is seriously believed that the United Nations is trying to take over the US, and Obama is a Kenyan socialist, an Islamist, a Marxist or the biological son of communist-sympathiser Frank Marshall Davis. This is a world where Obama wants to take away all guns, where he has dictatorial powers worthy of an emperor and where the US media is a liberal conspiracy pushing abortions and being gay. This is the world where Glenn Beck, former Fox TV host turned popular publisher of The Blaze website, is hugely powerful and shock jock Rush Limbaugh is king.<\/p>\n

Nothing of its kind exists to the same degree on the left, despite the recent best propagandistic efforts of MSNBC. Limbaugh is a man who can bring GOP politicians down if he wants. If they stray from orthodoxy, he can bring them back into line with some vitriol on his show. The words of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, or even New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, do not carry anything near the same weight with Democrats.<\/p>\n

On the left, we have our extreme wing-nuts too, but we marginalize and ignore them. On the right, Republicans celebrate and elect them.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Salon<\/a>: <\/font>CNN congressional corespondent [sic] Dana Bash tried to ask<\/a> Bachmann Tuesday about her the inconsistencies in her speech. It didn\u2019t go too well, as she explained to Anderson Cooper last night. Bash, who has gotten pretty good at chasing Bachmann<\/a> in heels, tried to speak with the Tea Party Caucus chairwoman in the basement of the Capitol, but the congresswoman took off running. Bash kept pace, valiantly trying to keep up her questions as they careered through the narrow corridors, but Bachmann refused to play ball.<\/p>\n

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If you thought that Batshit B would keep her trap shut, you thought wrong. She gave us another splendid example of projection.<\/font><\/p>\n

From National Memo<\/a>: <\/font>A new poll from Gallup<\/a> has some unsurprising results \u2014 Democrats and Independents support new government spending to create jobs \u2014 and one surprising result \u2014 so do Republicans.<\/p>\n

Lyin\u2019 Ryan claimed that his newest old budget will stimulate the economy, and he\u2019s right.  It will stimulate the economy of the Cayman Islands.  It will stimulate the economy of Switzerland.  It will stimulate the economy of Red China.  But in the US, only the economy particular to the 1% will be stimulated.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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The good news is that Spring has sproinged.  The bad news is that I haven\u2019t and am still down.  I\u2019ll keep you posted.  Happy Lady Day to our Wiccan friends. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:48 (average 6:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The Guardian: At the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}