{"id":4412,"date":"2011-03-27T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2011-03-27T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:08:11","slug":"open-thread3272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/27\/open-thread3272011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/27\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I got the blog up yesterday, I spent a couple <\/font>hours troubleshooting an IE9 problem and fixing a Firefox 4 problem.  At around Noon, I crawled back into bed and that was it until got up at Midnight to begin my research.  After two late nights of volunteer work this week, I obviously needed the sleep.  Today I have errands and chores to do.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:42 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi\u2019s forces retreated from this strategic city on Saturday, running for dozens of miles back along the coast with Libyan rebels in pursuit in their first major victory since American and European airstrikes began a week ago.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s progress.  I hope Libya dumps Daffy soon.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they’ll be able to hit the "panic button" — a special app that will both wipe out the phone’s address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists.<\/p>\n

Egyptians charging their cell phones at Tahrir Square (credit: Samir Eshra) The panic are button is one of the new technologies the U.S. State Department is promoting to equip pro-democracy activists in countries ranging from the Middle East to China with the tools to fight back against repressive governments.<\/p>\n

Egypt?  China?? Hell! When is the US model coming out?!!?  They are desperately needed in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, New Jersey, Florida, Texas and elsewhere!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>For years, former UN Ambassador John Bolton has been on a one-man mission to open up a new war in Iran. Last fall, he called for an immediate attack on Iran \u201cin the next eight days.\u201d When that didn\u2019t happen, Bolton pointed to the downfall of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak this winter as a reason to \u201cspeed that timetable up\u201d on an Iranian attack.<\/p>\n

ThinkProgress spoke with Bolton, who is weighing a run for the Republican presidential nomination, at the Conservative Principles Conference in Iowa. Despite current military engagements in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, Bolton urged the United States to also keep its focus on \u201cthe great risk\u201d of Iran. When asked whether our bombing of Libya means we\u2019re shifting focus away from Iran, Bolton argued for attacking both, declaring \u201cI think a president\u2019s got to walk and chew gum at the same time\u201d.<\/p>\n

If McConJob runs again, this clown would fit him perfectly.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

Pray for deliverance from the pseudo-Christian followers of Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the real one).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I got the blog up yesterday, I spent a couple hours troubleshooting an IE9 problem and fixing a Firefox 4 problem.  At around Noon, I crawled back into bed and that was it until got up at Midnight to begin my research.  After two late nights of volunteer work this week, I obviously needed […]<\/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-4412","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\/4412","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=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}