{"id":4682,"date":"2011-04-27T02:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2011-04-27T02:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:55:57","slug":"open-thread4272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/open-thread4272011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/27\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my eyes improves slightly, but they are still flowing and limiting me.&#160; I am current on replies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:16 (average 4:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-27-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.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/7538622.html\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama, predicting that oil and gas companies will report &quot;outsized profits&quot; this quarter, urged Congress on Tuesday to eliminate tax breaks that he said provide the oil and gas industry with more than $4 billion in annual subsidies.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Agent Orangs agreed this should be discussed, he lied.&#160; No way will the GOBP go along with this.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/bill-maher-to-david-letterman-tea-baggers-are-corporate-americas-useful-idiots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>: Bill Maher and David Letterman discuss the Tea Party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"421\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;content=6LCF4F201RDJ9SWM&amp;read_more=1&amp;widget_type_cid=svp\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Useful fools is an understatement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/04\/gop-prison-privatization-ohio-florida-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones<\/a>: <\/font>Last August, two prisoners escaped from an Arizona penitentiary and fled to New Mexico, where they ambushed a couple, shot them to death, and lit their bodies on fire inside a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>These fugitives didn&#8217;t escape from just any facility: They were housed in a privately run prison managed by the Utah-based Management Training Corporation. After the incident, a review by the Arizona Department of Corrections concluded that the prison had poorly trained staff and deficient equipment\u2014including a faulty security system that emitted so many false alarms, the prison staff simply ignored it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trust me.&#160; I know.&#160; Private prisons are a joke, and CCA is no better.&#160; If Republican governors gave a hoot about public safety, they would not be rushing to privatize their prisons.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Chan Lowe\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/chan_lowe\/2011-04-26\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chan Lowe\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/363928.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s hump day.&#160; Bagger butt is open for business. 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