{"id":4524,"date":"2011-04-09T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2011-04-09T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T11:04:11","slug":"open-thread492010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/open-thread492010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/9\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I was out late last night hosting a CoDA meeting, so I\u2019m running on very little sleep&#160; As a result, I\u2019m only putting up two articles in addition to this.&#160; I\u2019m up to date on comments.&#160; Plans for today include Zzzzzzzz\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:09 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-09-CE2504A965A9\">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.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/119486574.html\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Journal Sentinal<\/a>: <\/font>State election officials combed through Waukesha County election results Friday but fended off calls for examining individual ballots as Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg remained locked in a contentious Supreme Court race.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There\u2019s a reason Walker\u2019s wankers don\u2019t want anyone looking at the individual ballots there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/david\/us-peace-index-finds-southern-states-be-most\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Southern states are more violent than any region, according to a recently released peace index created with U.S. government statistics.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even with gang violence in blue state cities, the redder the state, the greater the violence.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Bill Schorr\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/bill_schorr\/2011-04-04\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bill Schorr\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/361442.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After last night, do you have your Vaseline handy?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out late last night hosting a CoDA meeting, so I\u2019m running on very little sleep&#160; As a result, I\u2019m only putting up two articles in addition to this.&#160; I\u2019m up to date on comments.&#160; Plans for today include Zzzzzzzz\u2026 Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:09 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, click <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/open-thread492010\/' 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-4524","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\/4524","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=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}