{"id":4577,"date":"2011-04-15T03:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2011-04-15T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T10:38:10","slug":"open-thread4152011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/open-thread4152011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/15\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had lots of prep work to do for my volunteer work.\u00a0 I\u2019m up to date with comments.\u00a0 Today, I need to rest in advance, because I host a CoDA group tonight, and will be out until the time I normally begin my research.\u00a0 Therefore tomorrow\u2019s articles may be late, abbreviated, or both.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 2:53 (4:08 average).\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:en <\/span><\/p>\n

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/span>Congress voted yesterday to keep the government financed through September, putting an end to a raucous first skirmish in this year\u2019s showdown between Democrats and Republicans over federal spending while presaging bigger ones to come.<\/p>\n

Scores of House Republicans deserted their leadership to vote against the bill, which cut $38 billion in spending, saying it did not go far enough. As a result, Speaker John A. Boehner was forced to rely on large numbers of Democrats to pass the measure, which subsequently sailed through the Senate, 81 to 19.<\/p>\n

My Rep., David Wu, and one Senator, Ron Wyden, voted against it. Sadly, my other Senator, Jeff Merkley, voted for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

From FOK News Channel<\/a>: <\/span>The First Guess: Lying About the Civil War<\/p>\n

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How I love that man!<\/span><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/span>US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a “Third World” country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n

Good!\u00a0 With rhetoric, albeit truthful, like this, he can\u2019t cave-in without getting \u201cyou too\u201d thrown in his face.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\"Chan<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

TGIF! <\/strong>(That was intended to be a factual statement.)<\/span><\/p>\n

It will not be Good Friday until there are no Republicans in office.
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Yesterday I had lots of prep work to do for my volunteer work.\u00a0 I\u2019m up to date with comments.\u00a0 Today, I need to rest in advance, because I host a CoDA group tonight, and will be out until the time I normally begin my research.\u00a0 Therefore tomorrow\u2019s articles may be late, abbreviated, or both. Jig […]<\/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-4577","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\/4577","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=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}