{"id":4743,"date":"2011-05-04T02:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2011-05-04T02:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:45:20","slug":"open-thread542011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/open-thread542011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/4\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the entire day getting Norton off my system and installing Ad-Aware Pro.  The initial scan took over four hours, but if found four items that Norton had let through.  Today I have a lot of catch-up tasks to do here.  I am current on replies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:09 (average 4:14)  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/font>The top Democrat in the Senate on budget matters said yesterday he is preparing a fiscal blueprint to slash the deficit by $4 trillion over the upcoming decade \u2014 a plan built on the bipartisan findings of President Obama\u2019s deficit commission.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll withhold judgment until I see the plan, but since Senator Conrad is an accursed DINO, I anticipate a real stinker.<\/font><\/p>\n

From FOK News Channel<\/a>: Keith\u2019s Worsts for yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All are heinous, but Batshit B is a good pick.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Judson Phillips, the head of Tea Party Nation, yesterday attacked President Obama for announcing the death of Osama bin Laden during Donald Trump\u2019s Celebrity Apprentice and for not wrapping his corpse in pig fat.<\/p>\n

Teabuggery most foul!  Cutting of Trump is America\u2019s Blessing.  The fool wants us to assist AQ\u2019s recruitment by offending Muslims everywhere.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

Have a Teabuggered hump day! (That was not intended to be a factual statement.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the entire day getting Norton off my system and installing Ad-Aware Pro.  The initial scan took over four hours, but if found four items that Norton had let through.  Today I have a lot of catch-up tasks to do here.  I am current on replies. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me […]<\/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-4743","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\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}