{"id":6284,"date":"2011-11-05T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/open-thread1152011-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-05T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T07:01:13","slug":"open-thread1152011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/open-thread1152011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/5\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, I didn\u2019t get my housework done.&#160; It\u2019s&#160; patient and always waits for me.&#160; However, I did go out to run errands, caught up an email backlog (self-renewing daily), purchased a couple needed items online, cooked a three day meal, set my fantasy football lineup, and got enough sleep for a change.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Today I have that housework and volunteer paperwork to do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:21 (average 5:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-11-05-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.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/04\/mfglobal-idUSN1E7A311V20111104\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>Jon Corzine resigned as MF Global Holdings Ltd&#8217;s chairman and chief executive in the face of mounting pressure from regulators searching for customer money that has gone missing from the brokerage&#8217;s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Corzine, a former chief of Goldman Sachs &amp; Co , called his departure &quot;difficult&quot; but voluntary, capping a rapid downfall for one of Wall Street&#8217;s best-known stars.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Could we possibly get a Bankster behind bars?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/115193\/department-of-justice-retreats-on-controversial-foia-rule\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Monthly<\/a>: <\/font>Faced with increasing push-back from the public, the media, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77456\/government-watchdog-warns-against-oversight-agency-expansion\/?lc=int_mb_1001\" target=\"_blank\">government watchdogs<\/a> and a bipartisan list of lawmakers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainjustice.com\/2011\/11\/03\/justice-department-withdraws-controversial-foia-rule-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Justice Thursday agreed<\/a> to drop a proposed regulation that would have allowed government agencies to lie to members of the public seeking records through the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I consider it reprehensible that such a rule was even considered.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/689972\/cuba_passes_law_allowing_private_home_sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The Cuban government has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time in 50 years, in the latest instalment [sic] of President Raul Castro&#8217;s reforms of the island&#8217;s Soviet-style economy.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It is time for the US to end our embargo of that nation.&#160; The cold war is over.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"5Cartoon\" alt=\"5Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/5Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn\u2019t get my housework done.&#160; It\u2019s&#160; patient and always waits for me.&#160; However, I did go out to run errands, caught up an email backlog (self-renewing daily), purchased a couple needed items online, cooked a three day meal, set my fantasy football lineup, and got enough sleep for a change.&#160; I\u2019m current on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/open-thread1152011-2\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","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=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}