{"id":4945,"date":"2011-05-29T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2011-05-29T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T08:25:06","slug":"open-thread5292011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/open-thread5292011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/29\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I rested up from Friday\u2019s exertions and did a little extra research.  The holiday weekend seems slow here, but that\u2019s normal, as I\u2019m sure many are vacationing. I\u2019m current on replies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:15 (average 4:07).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest aerospace company, said Saturday it detected and thwarted "a significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems a week ago.<\/p>\n

"As a result of the swift and deliberate actions taken to protect the network and increase IT security, our systems remain secure," said Jennifer Whitlow, a Lockheed spokeswoman. "No customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised."<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department have offered to help gauge the scope of the incident involving the defense contractor.<\/p>\n

I certainly appreciate the valid concern for security, when hackers can penetrate  the manufacturer of many major weapons systems, but feel the need to emphasize that security must be achieved without trampling privacy in the process.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NPR<\/a>: <\/font>Spending rose 0.4 percent in April but much of the increase was eaten up by higher food and energy prices. After discounting for the jump in prices, spending inched up 0.1 percent. After-tax incomes were flat for a second straight month.<\/p>\n

This is no surprise.  The top 2% are spending as fast as they can, and Republicans gave them all the money, except for what they stole.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>So for those keeping score at home, Barack Obama, the Kenyan socialist, used NBC to funnel a payoff to Donald Trump to pretend to doubt the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate so he could work as a double-super-secret agent to get the birthers’ inside information to throw them off the trail as they diligently tried to uncover the truth about the forged birth certificate, and all of Trump’s claims of sending private investigators to Hawaii to look into the "supposed" birth certificate were all just part of a clever decoy cooked up by Trump and Obama because the president will go to any lengths to hide the truth about his forged birth certificate, including buying off The Donald.<\/p>\n

AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! TEABUGGERY!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

InsaniTEA is unlimited.  (That was intended to be a factual statement.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I rested up from Friday\u2019s exertions and did a little extra research.  The holiday weekend seems slow here, but that\u2019s normal, as I\u2019m sure many are vacationing. I\u2019m current on replies. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:15 (average 4:07).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From LA […]<\/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-4945","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\/4945","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=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}