{"id":4150,"date":"2011-02-25T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2011-02-26T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:46:41","slug":"open-thread2252011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/open-thread2252011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/25\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Another day of torment here.\u00a0 I hope that there will come a day that I don\u2019t spend the majority of every hour thinking about a cigarette.\u00a0 I\u2019m up to date on comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today it took me 4:15 (average 5:08).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-02-25-CE2504A965A9\">click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/local\/Human-rights-activist-colleague-arrested-at-State-Capitol-116889063.html\">Arizona Family<\/a>: <\/span>A well-known human rights activist and his colleague were arrested Thursday afternoon at the State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It seems that state Senate Majority Leader, Russell Pearce, only allows white nativist activists in the capitol building, not Latinos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/channel6newsonline.com\/2011\/02\/nasas-space-shuttle-discovery-launches-on-final-flight-2\/\">Channel 6 News<\/a>: <\/span>Space Shuttle Discovery launched from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday afternoon to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The STS-133 mission is Discovery&#8217;s final scheduled flight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I remember the Sputnik launch and have followed the space program since.\u00a0 At the rate we are destroying this planet, we should be potting more effort into finding another place to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a title=\"Moveon.org\" href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/event\/events\/index.html?action_id=238\">Moveon.org:<\/a> <\/span><strong>On Saturday, February 26, at noon local time, we are organizing rallies in front of every statehouse and in every major city to stand in solidarity with the people of Wisconsin<\/strong>. We demand an end to the attacks on worker&#8217;s rights and public services across the country. We demand investment, to create decent jobs for the millions of people who desperately want to work. And we demand that the rich and powerful pay their fair share.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Health and distance keep me from attendance, but I\u2019ll be there in spirit and encourage the rest of you to attend the event in your area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Bruce Beattie\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/bruce_beattie\/2011-02-23\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/356658.full.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bruce Beattie\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TGIF!! Day 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day of torment here.\u00a0 I hope that there will come a day that I don\u2019t spend the majority of every hour thinking about a cigarette.\u00a0 I\u2019m up to date on comments. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:15 (average 5:08).\u00a0 To do it, click here. How did you do? Short Takes: From Arizona <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/open-thread2252011\/' 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-4150","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\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}