{"id":3471,"date":"2010-11-28T00:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T08:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2010-11-28T00:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T08:28:40","slug":"open-thread11282010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/28\/open-thread11282010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/28\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had a lot of personal catching up to do after the morning flood when they ran the heat.  However, I did manage to catch up on comments.  Today is uncertain, because this situation is still kicking my butt, plus it\u2019s a holy day for the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  It was a slow day for news.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:05 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>A second exodus has begun here, of Iraqis who returned after fleeing the carnage of the height of the war, but now find that violence and the nation’s severe lack of jobs are pulling them away from home once again.<\/p>\n

It appears Petraeus\u2019 mighty surge was effective only as long as the US kept paying off the Sunni faction.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Guardian<\/a>: <\/font>Peace talks conducted with an impostor who posed as a Taliban leader, and which led to a meeting with Hamid Karzai in Kabul and thousands of dollars in "goodwill payments", were started by the Afghan government and approved by the former American commander, Stanley McChrystal, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n

This account sharply contradicts claims made by the Afghan presidency, which has put the entire blame on Britain, apparently supported privately by US officials.<\/p>\n

McChrystal was Petraeus\u2019 hand-picked boy.<\/font><\/p>\n

That today\u2019s Short Takes<\/em> demonstrates Petraeus\u2019 incompetence in two different countries was not planned.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"Walt<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

May you be blessed by God, nature, yourself, or nothing based on in what you place your faith.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had a lot of personal catching up to do after the morning flood when they ran the heat.  However, I did manage to catch up on comments.  Today is uncertain, because this situation is still kicking my butt, plus it\u2019s a holy day for the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  It was a […]<\/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-3471","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\/3471","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=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}