{"id":6164,"date":"2011-10-22T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T07:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/open-thread10222011\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T07:44:25","slug":"open-thread10222011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/open-thread10222011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/22\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I never did get any errands run, because I spent most of the day tinkering and tying up loose ends on the computer.  Windows Update installed  IE9 on my computer.  I still prefer Firefox, but, when I need to copy and paste a table,  IE9 preserves the formatting, but Firefox does not.  I ran several scans with maintenance utilities  I use, and I installed the software for my printer.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I have errands to run and one computer task that could be daunting.  I will uninstall Norton and replace it with Ad-Aware.  The last time I uninstalled Norton, I had to hand edit the registry to remove the last traces that interfere with other AV software.  It took hours.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:25 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>On more than one occasion, the president has cut personal checks to struggling Americans who’ve written to the White House, according to an excerpt<\/a> from a new book<\/a> by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow about the ten letters the president reads every day.<\/p>\n

"It’s not something I should advertise, but it has happened," the president told Saslow.<\/p>\n

Republican presidents would do the same thing, except only for needy millionaires behind on their yacht payments, and instead of sending their own money, they would raise taxes on the poor to pay for it.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama announced Friday that the United States will withdraw nearly all troops from Iraq by the end of the year, effectively bringing the long and polarizing war in Iraq to an end. <\/p>\n

"After nearly 9 years, America’s war in Iraq will be over," said Mr. Obama. <\/p>\n

At last!  Afghanistan next!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/font>Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is losing her New Hampshire staff.<\/p>\n

As many as five staffers formally left Bachmann’s campaign this week, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said Friday. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose internal workings of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart disputed reports of a staff shakeup, saying: "We have a great team in New Hampshire. We haven’t been notified that anyone’s left the campaign."<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here.  Batshit B is lying. \ud83d\ude2f<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I never did get any errands run, because I spent most of the day tinkering and tying up loose ends on the computer.  Windows Update installed  IE9 on my computer.  I still prefer Firefox, but, when I need to copy and paste a table,  IE9 preserves the formatting, but Firefox does not.  I ran […]<\/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-6164","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\/6164","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=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}