{"id":4211,"date":"2011-03-04T06:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2011-03-04T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:05:24","slug":"open-thread342011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/open-thread342011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/4\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The battle against tobacco continues, as do my cravings unabated.  It serves to distract me from almost everything I do.  Research and writing both take longer.  I\u2019m up to date on comments.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:21 (4:51 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>President Obama demanded Thursday that the embattled Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, \u201cstep down from power and leave\u201d immediately, and said he would consider a full range of options to stem the bloodshed there, though he did not commit the United States to any direct military action. <\/p>\n

I do not support US military intervention at this time, unless such an intervention is UN sanctioned and includes troops and financial support from many other countries.  McConJob\u2019s notion that US force needs to protect oil bound for China is absurd.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White (R) indicted on seven felony counts including voter fraud, perjury and theft.<\/p>\n

Republicans perennially accuse Democrats of voter fraud, but in those very rare cases that it actually happens, the perpetrator is almost always a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Salon<\/a>: <\/font>Are you a major corporation that wants to do business with the state of Louisiana? The bad news is you can only donate $5,000 directly to Gov. Bobby Jindal. The good news is, you can give an unlimited amount of money to his wife’s charity, the Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana’s Children.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported last night<\/a> that corporations including Marathon Oil, AT&T, Northrup Grumman, Dow Chemical, Alon USA and various state contractors have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the foundation. All of those companies have business with the state. All of them received permits or evaded fines or won contracts.<\/p>\n

This is Republican integrity on didplay.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The battle against tobacco continues, as do my cravings unabated.  It serves to distract me from almost everything I do.  Research and writing both take longer.  I\u2019m up to date on comments. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:21 (4:51 average).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From NY […]<\/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-4211","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\/4211","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=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}