{"id":4569,"date":"2011-04-14T03:19:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2011-04-14T03:19:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:19:20","slug":"open-thread4122011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/open-thread4122011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/12\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did volunteer work with a therapy group of former prisoners.  Even though that cuts my morning sleep time short, it\u2019s much too fulfilling not to do, but I’m pretty useless when I get home.  I\u2019m up to date with comments.  Today, I have work to do on my volunteer groups\u2019 website and prep work for tomorrow night\u2019s volunteer work.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:20 (average 4:34).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who was suspended from a paid gig with Fox News Channel in March, returned to the network Wednesday night to announce that he was forming an exploratory committee to run for president.<\/p>\n

This is the creep that earned the title \u201cMan on Dog\u201d, because hen equated same sex marriages with bestiality.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is often mentioned as a presidential contender, but fewer than one in four voters in his home state would back him as a candidate, a poll released on Thursday said.<\/p>\n

I feel sorry for the state where I grew up, but they elected him.  Let the buyers\u2019 remorse grow across the country.<\/font><\/p>\n

From US News<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump \u2026 frontrunner? That was the news out of yesterday\u2019s CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation survey. Fully 19 percent of Republicans identified The Donald as their number one choice as party standard-bearer in the quest to evict Barack Obama from the White House. An equal number supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, while former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (12 percent), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (11 percent), and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (11 percent), rounded out the Republican top five.<\/p>\n

LOL! The Donald is using them for press.  Upchuck Huck has more skeletons than Halloween.  Newter is infamous for losing the House.  Few pay attention to Blood-libel Barbie anymore.  Then comes the so-called front runner.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

90% of Republicans have VD.  (That was not intended to be a factual statement<\/em>.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did volunteer work with a therapy group of former prisoners.  Even though that cuts my morning sleep time short, it\u2019s much too fulfilling not to do, but I’m pretty useless when I get home.  I\u2019m up to date with comments.  Today, I have work to do on my volunteer groups\u2019 website and prep […]<\/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-4569","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\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}