{"id":4305,"date":"2011-03-15T06:49:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2011-03-15T06:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:49:33","slug":"open-thread3152011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/open-thread3152011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/15\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My doctor was overbooked yesterday.&#160; Counting my travel time, my 15 minute appointment and 10 minute vampire session took 4.5 hours.&#160; The worst is that I had just taken a shower, and while getting dressed, I forgot to apply an nicotine patch.&#160; It was a gruesome trip.&#160; I\u2019m up to date on comments, but I have mid-month paperwork to do.&#160; Also, I slept poorly and feel quite exhausted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:19 (5:16 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-03-15-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.npr.org\/2011\/03\/15\/134556560\/Despite-Foreign-Troops-Bahrain-Protesters-Dont-Back-Down\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>: <\/font>Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations sent forces to Bahrain after a request from Bahrain&#8217;s royal family. Protesters have been demonstrating for more than a month against the island nation&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Iran is busting a gut over this, as the population is Shia, bit the rulers, Sunni.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/529030\/nh_goper_to_resign_after_saying_mentally_disabled_should_die_in_siberia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>State Rep. Martin Harty (R-NH) has resigned from the New Hampshire House of Representatives following his comment to a constituent that mentally challenged people and other &quot;defective&quot; people should die in a modern-day Siberia.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">By spreading the word, when the MSM would not touch this story, we helped bring this GOPSOB down!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/foknewschannel.com\/snappy-answers-for-march-15-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOK News Channel<\/a>: <\/font>Evan Bayh, Alleged Democrat, Joins Fox News As Paper Lion Punching Bag Commentator, Months After Complaining Of The Shrill Partisanship In The Senate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What an accursed DINO liar he is!&#160; He could not have chosen a more partisan environment.&#160; That\u2019s what to expect from a DINO that almost always goose-stepped with the Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><a title=\"Chip Bok\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/chip_bok\/2011-03-14\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chip Bok\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/358627.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tuesday is kindness to animals day.&#160; Feeding Republicans to your pets is not safe for their health.&#160; (The pets\u2019 health!)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My doctor was overbooked yesterday.&#160; Counting my travel time, my 15 minute appointment and 10 minute vampire session took 4.5 hours.&#160; The worst is that I had just taken a shower, and while getting dressed, I forgot to apply an nicotine patch.&#160; It was a gruesome trip.&#160; I\u2019m up to date on comments, but I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/open-thread3152011\/' 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-4305","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\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}