{"id":4709,"date":"2011-04-30T02:51:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T09:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2011-04-30T02:51:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T09:51:51","slug":"open-thread4302011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/30\/open-thread4302011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;4\/30\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my eyes continued to improve, and I watched the second day of the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb\u2019s Holy Festival of New Meat.&#160; I hope I can start taking on my huge backlog of volunteer work on Monday.&#160; I remain 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 3:38 (average 4:39).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-04-30-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:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/04\/daniels_to_sign_bill_stripping_federal_funds_from.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Republican Governor Mitch Daniels released a statement Friday afternoon saying he will sign legislation stripping federal funds from Planned Parenthood in Indiana, the first state to make such a move.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That should kill any Presidential aspirations he might have had.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/robertson-america-turning-sodom-and-gomorrah\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Pat Robertson on the 700 Club today warned viewers that America has become like Sodom and Gomorrah by abandoning the Christian roots of its early settlers. Robertson blasted \u201ccourts and judges [who] have trampled on the early origins of our nation\u201d and \u201cdistorted the meaning of the First Amendment,\u201d lamenting that \u201chomosexuality has been made a constitutional right, that abortion has been made a constitutional right.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The man is daft!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2011\/04\/29\/ann_coulter_still_pretending_fox_news_did_not_promote_birther_myth.php\" target=\"_blank\">News Hounds<\/a>:&#160; <\/font>Two-time voter-fraud suspect Ann Coulter has either not been watching much Fox News lately or else maybe she has watched it with the same kind of carelessness with which she has chosen where to vote. Or else she deliberately lied Wednesday night (4\/27\/11) when she insisted on The O\u2019Reilly Factor that \u201cevery single person who works at Fox News\u201d had rejected the myth about President Obama\u2019s birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Right Coultergeist.&#160; Fox never promoted Birtherism, Pat Robertson never promoted Supply-side Jesus, and McDonalds never promoted burgers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Nick Anderson\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/nick_anderson\/2011-04-29\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nick Anderson\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/364128.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican leaders love America. 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