{"id":4431,"date":"2011-03-29T05:03:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2011-03-29T05:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:03:20","slug":"open-thread3292011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/open-thread3292011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/29\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday did not go as planned.&#160; After breakfast, I closed my eyes to rest them for a few minutes and did not wake up until mid afternoon, so I did not even get all my errands and chores done.&#160; Today, we\u2019ll see, but I\u2019m 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 4:05 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-03-29-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.thestatecolumn.com\/articles\/donald-trump-presents-wrong-birth-certificate\/\" target=\"_blank\">The State Column<\/a>: <\/font>New York Republican Donald Trump likely understands how President Obama feels when people question the validity of his birth certificate. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump, who has gained national attention concerning his questioning of Mr. Obama\u2019s birth certificate, attempted to present his own birth certificate Monday only to realize it was a copy. <\/p>\n<p>Politico reported that the document presented by Mr. Trump is not, in fact, his official birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LMAO!&#160; I still thing Donald Duck is a better choice.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/29michigan.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Michigan, whose unemployment rate has topped 10 percent longer than that of any other state, is about to set another record: its new Republican governor, Rick Snyder, signed a law Monday that will lead the state to pay fewer weeks of unemployment benefits next year than any other state.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah, the fruits of sending Obama a message!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/03\/28\/960965\/-Polling-tight-in-Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Anonymous Republican sources tell the National Review that polling in on the April 5th Wisconsin Supreme Court election between JoAnne Kloppenburg and incumbent David Prosser is &quot;near even.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In case you don\u2019t know, Prosser is a Koch sucking Walker clone.&#160; Vote JoAnne Kloppenburg!<\/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\/2011-03-25\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clay Bennett\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/360212.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Friends don\u2019t let friends duck voting.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday did not go as planned.&#160; After breakfast, I closed my eyes to rest them for a few minutes and did not wake up until mid afternoon, so I did not even get all my errands and chores done.&#160; Today, we\u2019ll see, but I\u2019m up to date on comments. 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