{"id":4541,"date":"2011-04-11T03:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2011-04-11T03:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T10:48:19","slug":"open-thread-4112011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/open-thread-4112011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread-4\/11\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday Safeway delivered my groceries.&#160; Unpacking them and putting them them away took over two hours and wore me out.&#160; I\u2019m up to date with comments and am wondering if I smell bad, because there were only two.&#160; Today is that most hated of days.&#160; I will be cursing the heavens, ranting, raving, fuming, frothing at the mouth and, in the process, acting almost as crazy as a Teabagger.&#160; It\u2019s income tax day. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-cryingface\" alt=\"Crying face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wlEmoticon-cryingface.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:46 (average 4:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-11-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.mediaite.com\/tv\/bill-maher-class-war-charlie-sheen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Maher was his usual understated self on Real Time tonight, urging everyday Americans to begin \u201ca class war\u201d on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"421\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;content=DH828125FWGMD9PP&amp;read_more=1&amp;widget_type_cid=svp\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He\u2019s so funny.&#160; He\u2019s also so right!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/11\/us\/11military.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Gen. 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McChrystal, who was relieved of command in Afghanistan after a magazine profile quoted his subordinates as disparaging senior civilian leaders, has been invited back to public service by the Obama administration to help oversee a high-profile initiative in support of military families, White House officials said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What are they thinking!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/europe\/04\/11\/france.burqa.ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>France&#8217;s controversial ban on wearing Islamic veils such as burqas and niqabs takes effect Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A silent protest march against the burqa ban is planned for Monday morning in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Remember freedom fries?&#160; How things change!&#160; The French are acting positively Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Don Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/don_wright\/2011-04-07\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Don Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/361851.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Safeway delivered my groceries.&#160; Unpacking them and putting them them away took over two hours and wore me out.&#160; I\u2019m up to date with comments and am wondering if I smell bad, because there were only two.&#160; Today is that most hated of days.&#160; I will be cursing the heavens, ranting, raving, fuming, frothing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/open-thread-4112011\/' 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-4541","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\/4541","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=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}