{"id":3940,"date":"2011-01-27T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2011-01-27T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:34:09","slug":"open-thread1272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/open-thread1272011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/27\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still pretty ill, but I am up to date on replies.&#160; Yesterdays big SOTU post just wiped me out and I spent the next 18 hours in bed, except for a couple sandwich breaks.&#160; I hope to return visits this weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:42 (average 4:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-01-27-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.newsweek.com\/2011\/01\/27\/white-house-to-push-gun-control.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a>: <\/font>Obama intentionally did not mention gun control in his State of the Union, but aides say that in the next two weeks the administration will unveil a campaign to get Congress to toughen existing laws.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m pleased to learn that he has not forgotten this important issue and the need to disarm crazies before Republican rhetoric whips them to commit violent acts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/dont_know_much_about_history_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Sarah Palin: The Soviet Union collapsed because the Soviets spent so much money winning the space race. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I wonder if Drill Baby Death-threats has considered the effects of the arms race.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Drew Sheneman\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/drew_sheneman\/2011-01-26\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Drew Sheneman\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/353090.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Think elections when you drive today: D for ahead, R for backwards.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still pretty ill, but I am up to date on replies.&#160; Yesterdays big SOTU post just wiped me out and I spent the next 18 hours in bed, except for a couple sandwich breaks.&#160; I hope to return visits this weekend. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:42 (average 4:11).&#160; To do it, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/open-thread1272011\/' 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-3940","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\/3940","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=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}