{"id":1150,"date":"2010-04-14T01:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-04-14T01:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:39:31","slug":"open-thread-4142010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/open-thread-4142010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 4\/14\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I replied to comments and that\u2019s about all.  I was late to my doctor appointment because bus #1 was 10 minutes late, and bus #2 was over 5 minutes early.  GRRRR!!  I had to wait over an hour for the doc to squeeze me in.  Feeling tired out, I rested.  Don\u2019t expect much today, because I co-facilitate a therapy group for dormer prisoners.  The therapist with whom I have been working retired last week for medical reasons, and this will be my first week working with her replacement.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:40.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Newshounds<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News would rather interrupt President Obama’s news conference than let its viewers miss a moment of Glenn Beck. After all, he might come up with a new way of calling the president a socialist racist who is destroying our country.<\/p>\n

Can you believe that the actually did that?!!?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Public Policy Polling<\/a>: <\/font>Only 28% of voters in the country say they approve of the current direction of the GOP with 51% disapproving. Even among voters who identify with the party just 54% say they like where it’s headed. It’s predictable that Democrats would give it very low marks but even among independents just 18% think the Republicans are headed in the right direction while 49% dissent.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a 28% idiocy rate.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>According to a recent CBS News\/New York Times poll, the vast majority of Americans do not perceive that they have received a tax cut from President Obama. Asked if the President \u201chas already raised taxes this past year,\u201d 53 percent of those polled said that the President has \u201ckept taxes the same,\u201d and 24 percent think that the President has \u201craised taxes.\u201d A mere 12 percent believe that the President has cut their taxes.<\/p>\n

This is an astonishing level of misunderstanding. The truth is that the major tax cuts enacted in the 2009 economic stimulus bill actually reduced federal income taxes for tax year 2009 for 98 percent of all working families and individuals. These tax cuts saved working families and individuals an average of $1,158 on the tax returns they will file by April 15.<\/p>\n

The GOP just keeps repeating the lie that Obama increased their taxes, when the exact opposite is true.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by Bob Englehart<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Happy hump day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I replied to comments and that\u2019s about all.  I was late to my doctor appointment because bus #1 was 10 minutes late, and bus #2 was over 5 minutes early.  GRRRR!!  I had to wait over an hour for the doc to squeeze me in.  Feeling tired out, I rested.  Don\u2019t expect much today, […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}