{"id":3956,"date":"2011-01-29T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2011-01-29T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T17:35:13","slug":"open-thread1292011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/open-thread1292011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/29\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still fighting for air, but I am up to date on comments and and have some good items today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:21 (3:52 average).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, had a rough 2010. But at least he got a raise: his bonus increased by $3.6 million, according to a regulatory filing.<\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s board granted restricted stock valued at $12.6 million to Mr. Blankfein.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s quite a reward for all the misery he caused the American people with Republican support.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Independent<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed this week $400 billion in \u201creal and necessary\u201d budget cuts in federal spending to avoid raising the budget ceiling from $14.3 trillion. The cuts include capping increases in Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 health care spending and reducing Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) payments for veterans, all to save a total of $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Batshit B is showing what Republicans mean by \u201cSupport Our Troops\u201d.  Use them up as cannon fodder. Then dump them.<\/font><\/p>\n

From News Hounds<\/a>: <\/font>Predictably, Fox News\u2019 fear and loathing of Muslims was front and center in their coverage of the Egypt demonstrations (more on that in a later post). But Sean Hannity took partisanship to new heights \u2013 or depths \u2013 when he \u201casked\u201d if there wasn\u2019t a connection between the uprising and Democrats being in power in the U.S.A. Not that he was able to make any real connection \u2013 you know the kind he and his colleagues demanded when they attacked those who suggested there might be a link between right-wing violent rhetoric and the Tucson massacre.<\/p>\n

I told you they would blame the left.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

What\u2019s up?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still fighting for air, but I am up to date on comments and and have some good items today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:21 (3:52 average).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From NY Times: Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, had 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-3956","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\/3956","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=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}