{"id":3430,"date":"2010-11-22T01:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2010-11-22T01:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:45:50","slug":"open-thread11-22-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/open-thread11-22-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11-22-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a holy day for the church of the ellipsoid orb, so I mediated upon the unblinking eye.&#160; Today I have errands to run and want to try to get some sleep this afternoon, because tonight is a holy day, with the Denver and San Diego congregations worshiping on Monday Night.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:10 (4:23 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-11-22-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.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/environment\/2010-11-22-carbon22_ST_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, widely blamed as the chief cause of global warming, dropped from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, according to a study released Sunday. It was the first decline since the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is probably the only green thing Republicans have done.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jkmFenYDhOo4fNYD2O6_ntRI3LGA?docId=7e30cc505f274e90868687e2af0ff38c\" target=\"_blank\">AP\/Google<\/a>: <\/font>Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Sunday that Iowa voters likely launched a national movement when ousting three state Supreme Court justices who agreed with a decision to strike a ban on gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee was in Des Moines courting evangelical conservatives who pushed him to victory in Iowa&#8217;s leadoff precinct caucuses in the last election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think judges should be appointed and confirmed, not elected.&#160; Choosing judges based on bias contradicts their proper role in society.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thevileplutocrat.com\/bile\/articles\/hp-to-pay-16.25-million-settlement-for-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Vile Plutocrat<\/a>: <\/font>Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay $16.25 million in a settlement with the Justice Department after an extensive investigation into allegations the company defrauded a federal program that brings Internet connections and computers to schools and libraries.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Aren\u2019t you glad that California did not send the woman who did this to the Senate?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"MIke Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/mike_thompson\/2010-11-19\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MIke Thompson\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/344614.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM! <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile\" alt=\"Sad smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wlEmoticon-sadsmile1.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a holy day for the church of the ellipsoid orb, so I mediated upon the unblinking eye.&#160; Today I have errands to run and want to try to get some sleep this afternoon, because tonight is a holy day, with the Denver and San Diego congregations worshiping on Monday Night. 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