{"id":4376,"date":"2011-03-23T05:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T12:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2011-03-23T05:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T12:05:53","slug":"open-thread3232011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/open-thread3232011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/23\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I spent most of the day completing the corporate return and other annual reports the government requires from nonprofits.&#160; We never owe anything, except for the $60 in fees required just to exist, because our revenue stream is far to small to be taxable, but it\u2019s still hard work.&#160; I am up to date on comments.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:57 (average 4:22).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-03-23-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:\/\/front.moveon.org\/the-most-aggressive-defense-of-teachers-youll-hear-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">moveon.org<\/a>: What teachers make.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RxsOVK4syxU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Very well said, indeed!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/2chambers\/post\/senate-judiciary-subcommittee-sets-hearing-for-next-week-on-protecting-the-civil-rights-of-american-muslims\/2011\/03\/22\/ABHQNZEB_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>A Senate Judiciary subcommittee is planning to hold a hearing next week examining the issue of American Muslims\u2019 civil rights, less than three weeks after a House committee hearing led by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) on the radicalization of American Muslims drew widespread controversy.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This hearing should prove a fascinating counter-point to the Republican hatred and bigotry at King\u2019s faux-hearing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/03\/22\/mccain_gadhafi_wikileaks\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. John McCain has taken a strange position on the Libyan conflict: He&#8217;s been calling for the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi not only on humanitarian grounds, but also because Gadhafi has &quot;American blood on his hands&quot; from the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. However, just 18 months ago, McCain himself traveled to Tripoli to talk to Gadhafi about a transfer of American military equipment. He also praised the &quot;remarkable and positive turn&quot; in U.S.-Libya relations.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">McConJob is a typical GOP hypocrite.<\/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\/2011-03-22\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clay Bennett\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/359969.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cover your butts!&#160; It\u2019s hump day for Republicans too! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent most of the day completing the corporate return and other annual reports the government requires from nonprofits.&#160; We never owe anything, except for the $60 in fees required just to exist, because our revenue stream is far to small to be taxable, but it\u2019s still hard work.&#160; I am up to date <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/open-thread3232011\/' 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-4376","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\/4376","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=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}