{"id":6295,"date":"2011-11-06T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/open-thread1162011-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T07:00:45","slug":"open-thread1162011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/open-thread1162011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/6\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a lazy day.&#160; I did a little housework and did some extra research.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The prayer meeting between my Broncos and the Oakland congregation will be televised here, so I shall be deep in meditation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:08 (average 5:08).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-11-06-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.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/06\/us\/andy-rooney-mainstay-on-60-minutes-dead-at-92.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d delivered every week from 1978 until 2011, made him a household name, died on Friday in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>He was 92 and lived in Manhattan, though he kept a family vacation home in Rensselaerville, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While I was never a fan of his, as I preferred hard news to infotainment, he made a mark on the industry.&#160; Condolences to all who loved him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/04\/occupy-dc-protesters-koch-photos_n_1077445.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Protesters marched on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Friday evening where Americans for Prosperity, a conservative organization funded in part by the Koch brothers, was assembled for its Defending The American Dream Summit and Ronald Reagan tribute dinner.<\/p>\n<p>During the dinner, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said &quot;I am proud to know the Koch brothers,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/04\/herman-cain-declares-his-allegiance-to-the-koch-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bravo!&#160; Nobody is more emblematic of the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/11\/05\/maher-republicans-might-as-well-nominate-tim-tebow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>Bill Maher: Republicans should nominate Tom Tebow.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"421\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;content=CTB9Z31SV3DPV8VV&amp;read_more=1&amp;widget_type_cid=svp\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bill is funny, even if he is picking on my team\u2019s QB. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"6Cartoon\" alt=\"6Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a lazy day.&#160; I did a little housework and did some extra research.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; The prayer meeting between my Broncos and the Oakland congregation will be televised here, so I shall be deep in meditation. 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