{"id":4025,"date":"2011-02-07T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2011-02-07T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:15:21","slug":"open-thread272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/07\/open-thread272011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/7\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I thoroughly enjoyed the Super Bowl and congratulate the Green Bay Packers for their well-deserved championship.&#160; Today begins the season of mourning in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, because the Orb has set and will shed no light until August.&#160; I grieve!&#160; I\u2019m up to day on comments and will have to see what the day brings as there are things I have to do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:47 (average 5:36).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-02-07-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.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/02\/07\/aol-huffington-post_n_819375.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>AOL Inc. [NYSE:AOL] announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Huffington Post, the influential and rapidly growing news, analysis, and lifestyle website founded in 2005, which now counts nearly 25 million unique monthly visitors.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For now, it appears that the change will not effect HuffPo\u2019s political orientation, but I am concerned about the long term.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/06\/AR2011020601912.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Authorities say a Florida man is accused of stabbing another man in the neck after learning he was Muslim during a discussion about religion. <\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest affidavit, the man who was stabbed told 52-year-old Bradley Kent Strott that he was Muslim while the two talked on Saturday. Investigators say Strott then grabbed the man by his shirt and stabbed him with a pocket knife. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yet another victim of the hatred directed against Muslims by the Republican party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Clay Bennett\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/clay_bennett\/2011-02-04\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clay Bennett\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/354218.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I thoroughly enjoyed the Super Bowl and congratulate the Green Bay Packers for their well-deserved championship.&#160; Today begins the season of mourning in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, because the Orb has set and will shed no light until August.&#160; I grieve!&#160; I\u2019m up to day on comments and will have to see <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/07\/open-thread272011\/' 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-4025","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\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}