{"id":4663,"date":"2011-04-25T04:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T11:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2011-04-25T04:05:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T11:05:18","slug":"open-thread4252011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/open-thread4252011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/25\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my vision improved slightly, but not much.&#160; I\u2019m running late, because of that and because I overslept, but I am current on replies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:44 (average 4:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-25-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.alternet.org\/newsandviews\/article\/569425\/study:_most_americans_want_wealth_distribution_similar_to_sweden\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.hbs.edu\/mnorton\/norton%20ariely%20in%20press.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> (PDF) carried out by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School and Dan Ariely of Duke University, and flagged by Paul Kedrosky at the Infectious Greed blog, 92 percent of Americans would choose to live in a society with far less income disparity than the US, choosing Sweden&#8217;s model over that of the US.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This blew me away, but the data is valid.&#160; Check the PDF file yourself.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/sen_kyl_amends_the_record\/2011\/04\/24\/AFFq7ZeE_video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: How Kyl amended the Congressional Record.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"270\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/specials.washingtonpost.com\/mv\/embed\/?title=Sen.%20Kyl%20amends%20the%20record&amp;stillURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Frf%2Fimage_480x270%2F2010-2019%2FWashingtonPost%2F2011%2F04%2F25%2FEditorial-Opinion%2FVideos%2F04242011-3v%2F04242011-3v.jpg&amp;flvURL=%2Fmedia%2F2011%2F04%2F24%2F04242011-3v.m4v&amp;width=480&amp;height=270&amp;autoStart=0&amp;clickThru=\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">(That was intended to be a factual statement.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/24\/wikileaks-911-al-qaeda-leaders_n_853091.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That kind of makes me wonder why Pakistan is an \u201cally\u201d and what the hell we\u2019re doing in Afghanistan?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><a title=\"Chan Lowe\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/chan_lowe\/2011-04-22\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chan Lowe\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/363460.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my vision improved slightly, but not much.&#160; I\u2019m running late, because of that and because I overslept, but I am current on replies. Jig Zone: Today it took me 3:44 (average 4:31).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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