{"id":4531,"date":"2011-04-10T03:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2011-04-10T03:48:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:48:20","slug":"open-thread4102011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/open-thread4102011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/10\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was completely exhausted.&#160; Except for installing a new widget in the right sidebar, I spent the day sleeping and resting.&#160; I am up to date on comments.&#160; This morning I have a month\u2019s groceries being delivered.&#160; With my physical limitations, it will take me between two and three hours to unpack and put them all away, after which I\u2019ll be pretty useless.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 5:00 (average 6:04).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Hoe 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.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/opinion\/10thompson.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>I SPENT 18 years in prison for robbery and murder, 14 of them on death row. I\u2019ve been free since 2003, exonerated after evidence covered up by prosecutors surfaced just weeks before my execution date.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is John Thompson\u2019s story.&#160; It\u2019s well worth the read.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-10\/china-posts-unexpected-140-million-trade-surplus-in-march-as-exports-rise.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>China\u2019s first quarterly trade deficit in seven years may ease pressure on the world\u2019s biggest exporter to allow faster appreciation of the yuan. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How did that happen?&#160; The only thing they import from here is jobs. \ud83d\ude44<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2011\/04\/09\/111911\/sadr-threatens-return-to-war-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font>Hardline Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr mobilized tens of thousands of followers Saturday to mark the eighth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime with a warning that United States troops must not stay in Iraq past their scheduled Dec. 31 departure date. <\/p>\n<p>In a speech read by an aide to the crowd, Sadr said that the failure of U.S. troops to leave on time would mean &quot;escalating military resistance and reactivating the Mahdi Army,&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hear buzz that Gates is toying with keeping troops there longer.&#160; In a word, NO!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Robert Ariail\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/robert_ariail\/2011-04-10\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Robert Ariail\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/361840.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pray that Democrats grow spines!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was completely exhausted.&#160; Except for installing a new widget in the right sidebar, I spent the day sleeping and resting.&#160; I am up to date on comments.&#160; This morning I have a month\u2019s groceries being delivered.&#160; With my physical limitations, it will take me between two and three hours to unpack and put <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/open-thread4102011\/' 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-4531","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\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}