{"id":3214,"date":"2010-10-28T01:26:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2010-10-28T01:26:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:26:06","slug":"open-thread-10282010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/open-thread-10282010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 10\/28\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was tied up all day doing volunteer work and had no time to reply to comments.&#160; Today will be another busy one, because I\u2019ll be spending all afternoon and evening doing volunteer work at Oregon State Penitentiary.&#160; I may have time for comments before I leave.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:43 (average 4:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-10-28-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/28\/technology\/28compute.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jobs aren\u2019t the only thing Republicans have outsourced.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2010\/10\/28\/politics-us-alaska-election_8052601.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>: <\/font>The Alaska Supreme Court late Wednesday blocked a lower court&#8217;s order and ruled that voters at polling places may see a list of write-in candidates.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That changes everything in Alaska.&#160; Now Murkowski will probably hold the seat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/10\/boehner_to_appear_with_nazi_reenactor.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>I&#8217;d thought Richard Iott had been put out to pasture after news broke that his main hobby was Nazi reenacting. After that Rep. Eric Cantor (R) denounced him. And then everything pretty much went down hill from there when he started saying that he didn&#8217;t think we were in a position to judge the SS soldiers who did all the cool stuff on the Eastern Front.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently Iott is out of the dog House. And back in John Boehner&#8217;s House. <\/p>\n<p>This Saturday John Boehner is going to appear at a special pre-election rally .<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I call this goose-stepping in orange.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Mike Luckovich\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/mike_luckovich\/2010-10-17\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mike Luckovich\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/340327.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Vote!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was tied up all day doing volunteer work and had no time to reply to comments.&#160; Today will be another busy one, because I\u2019ll be spending all afternoon and evening doing volunteer work at Oregon State Penitentiary.&#160; I may have time for comments before I leave. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/open-thread-10282010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-3214","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\/3214","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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}