{"id":4801,"date":"2011-05-11T02:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T09:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2011-05-11T02:09:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T09:09:50","slug":"open-thread5112011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/open-thread5112011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/11\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was out and about running errands.&#160; My COPD flared up and I had to take frequent breaks to catch my breath.&#160; I felt bushed when I returned home, but I am current on comments.&#160; Today it\u2019s back to the denturist.&#160; They may or may not be pulling teeth.&#160; If they do, I may have to take tomorrow off here, or posts may be abbreviated and\/or late.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:43 (average 4:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-05-11-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.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/bin-laden-killing-gives-obama-new-applause-line-at-democratic-party-fundraiser\/2011\/05\/10\/AFneG9kG_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The killing of Osama bin Laden has given President Barack Obama a new applause line for fundraising events.<\/p>\n<p>Obama boasted at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Tuesday night that thanks to the U.S. military and American intelligence agencies, \u201cOsama bin Laden will never again threaten the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now, if only he could be as effective against the greater threat, Al Dubya.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From You Tube: Bill Maher thinks Obama is a black ninja gangsta President.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fm5IEWotkfE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He\u2019s hilarious, as usual, but his point is dead on.&#160; It is Republicans, not Democrats, who are weaklings on national security and defense.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/05\/10\/maine-senate-candidate-calls-on-olympia-snowe-to-resign-in-face-of-husband%E2%80%99s-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a>: <\/font>Maine Republican Senate candidate Scott D\u2019Amboise, who is challenging sitting Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe in the upcoming 2012 primary, called on Snowe to resign from her seat immediately.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Amboise issued a statement Tuesday morning calling on Snowe to resign after the U.S. Department of Justice joined a lawsuit against Education Management Corporation (EDMC), a company that has employed her husband, former Maine Gov. John McKernan, for the past 12 years. The suit alleges that EDMC had defrauded the government of financial aid funding.*<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Amboise said Snowe has \u201cdirectly benefited\u201d from her husband\u2019s financial activity, which he describes as, \u201cdefrauding of taxpayers, pocketing millions of dollars \u2013 millions of our hard earned tax dollars.\u201d D\u2019Amboise also said Snowe \u201cbecame a millionaire with our money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bear in mind that D\u2019Ambrose is a Teabagger, but if he can unseat Snowe, that\u2019s a seat Democrats could pick up.<\/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\/2011-05-10\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chan Lowe\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/365523.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is hump day, so use a Republican to give a camel a second hump: tie camel, lift tail, and insert Republican.&#160; ;-)&#160; (That was not intended to be a factual statement.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was out and about running errands.&#160; My COPD flared up and I had to take frequent breaks to catch my breath.&#160; I felt bushed when I returned home, but I am current on comments.&#160; Today it\u2019s back to the denturist.&#160; They may or may not be pulling teeth.&#160; If they do, I may <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/open-thread5112011\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-4801","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\/4801","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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}