{"id":6156,"date":"2011-10-21T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/open-thread10212011\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T07:00:31","slug":"open-thread10212011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/open-thread10212011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/21\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I spent the entire day getting my new computer to the point where I can use it.&#160; The biggest single tasks were to copy all my appointments from my old Calendar to my new one and to replace eight drivers that were out of date.&#160; Barring unforeseen circumstances, I\u2019m back in the saddle.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Today I have errands to run, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll think of more things to fix.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday\u2019s took me 3:37 (average 5:07).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-10-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Today it took me 4:22 (average 5:21).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-10-21-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:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/10\/the-romney-rule-attack-makes-its-official-debut-video.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: The Romney Rule<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYIx-OmD-0w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our rule:&#160; keep Romney unemployed!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/progolftalk.nbcsports.com\/2011\/10\/18\/protesters-interrupt-speaker-boehners-round-of-golf-at-pelican-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>: <\/font>House Speaker John Boehner cannot event have a round of golf these days without being approached by angry constituents. The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global and, apparently, mobile as Boehner was followed by some 50 protesters to a Monday golf round at Pelican Hill Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>Boehner was at the club for a fundraising tournament put on by the Orange County GOP. The protesters held their occupation on Pelican Hill Road, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/10\/protesters-disrupt-john-boehner-golf-game-in-newport-beach.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Daily Pilot<\/a>. Their leader Rick Jacobs said Boehner cannot avoid their myriad demands.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Before we know it, they\u2019ll be picketing Agent Orange at his home away from home: the bar.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/20\/us\/social-security-benefits-to-rise-3-6-next-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Social Security recipients will get a 3.6 percent increase in benefits next year to help keep up with inflation, the first such cost-of-living adjustment in three years, the government announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The automatic increase will begin with payments that go to nearly 55 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. <\/p>\n<p>For retired workers, the average monthly benefit will increase by $43, to $1,229. That translates into annual income of $14,748, up $516 from this year.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Mine will barely cover the increases in my rent for the last three years, but every little bit helps.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"21Cartoon\" alt=\"21Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/21Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent the entire day getting my new computer to the point where I can use it.&#160; The biggest single tasks were to copy all my appointments from my old Calendar to my new one and to replace eight drivers that were out of date.&#160; Barring unforeseen circumstances, I\u2019m back in the saddle.&#160; I\u2019m <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/open-thread10212011\/' 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-6156","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\/6156","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=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}