{"id":1171,"date":"2010-04-16T02:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2010-04-16T02:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T09:23:01","slug":"open-thread-4162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/open-thread-4162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 4\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was really tired, but I did manage to reply to comments and return outstanding visits.  If my comments were brief and full of typos, I apologize.  My eyelids declared war on me.  Today I have a few errands to run, but I do hope to do at least the same.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:41.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Angry Fox News executives ordered host Sean Hannity to abandon plans to broadcast his nightly show as part of a Tea Party rally in Cincinnati on Thursday after top executives learned that he was set to headline the event, proceeds from which would benefit the local Tea Party organization.<\/p>\n

Hannity should know better.  Faux Noise<\/em> propagandists are supposed to whore themselves for Teabuggery in a way that maintains at least a tiny shred of deniability.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Porn star Stormy Daniels has announced that she will not run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, against Republican incumbent David Vitter.<\/p>\n

Daniels had been seemingly laying the groundwork for a campaign for the past year, frequently making light of Vitter’s status as a family-values conservative who was embroiled in a prostitution scandal a few years ago. Last week, for example, she officially declared herself to be a Republican — saying that the party had swayed her with the RNC’s spending of $2,000 at a bondage-themed night club in West Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Dang!!  Stormy was the only honest Republican running for public office!  I\u2019m thinking that Diaper Dave let her beat him \u2026um\u2026 professionally.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

Yesterday I was really tired, but I did manage to reply to comments and return outstanding visits.  If my comments were brief and full of typos, I apologize.  My eyelids declared war on me.  Today I have a few errands to run, but I do hope to do at least the same. Jig Zone Puzzle: […]<\/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-1171","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\/1171","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=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}