{"id":6378,"date":"2011-11-25T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/open-thread11252011\/"},"modified":"2011-11-25T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:03:04","slug":"open-thread11252011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/open-thread11252011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/25\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I enjoyed two big plates of food and fed a couple of the people in my building who have nothing.&#160; Thanksgiving dinner always puts me to sleep, so I was sacrilegious to the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, missing most of two games.&#160; Thanksgiving is a slow day for political news, but I did find material for one other article to accompany this one.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today will be a much needed lazy day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:58 (average 4:39).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-11-25-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.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,2100240,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords helped serve a Thanksgiving meal to service members and retirees at a military base in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m happy to see her getting up and around.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2011\/11\/24\/fox_nations_holiday_thoughts_lets_give_thanks_for_the_one_percent.php\" target=\"_blank\">News Hounds<\/a>: <\/font>Even on Thanksgiving, Fox\u2019s thoughts are not on solving our country\u2019s problems and bringing us together as Americans but promoting its ideological agenda with divisiveness. Let\u2019s be real. There\u2019s no reason for blaring a headline saying, Let&#8217;s Give Thanks For The One Percent [Faux delinked], other than as an FU to the 99 Percent\/Occupy movements.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I guess these Republicans are thankful for their greed and hate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/11\/24\/376134\/thankful-for-climate-scientists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>I am thankful for climate scientists, who toil away for long hours away from their family, sometimes in the most inhospitable parts of the world, for not much money (sorry disinformers) \u2014 and do so thanklessly, indeed they do so in the face of <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/02\/the-rise-of-anti-science-cyber-bullying\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-science cyber-bullying<\/a> and hostility from <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/06\/29\/257281\/american-association-for-advancement-of-science-slams-harassment-and-attacks-aimed-at-climate-scientists\/\" target=\"_blank\">sorry-ass disinformers<\/a> \u2014 all in a desperate attempt to avert the gravest of human tragedies.&#160; They are like the hero of Henrik Ibsen\u2019s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Enemy_of_the_People\" target=\"_blank\">An Enemy of the People<\/a> \u2014 which someone should definitely modernize into a climate science parable.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They certainly deserve our thanks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"25Cartoon\" alt=\"25Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/25Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I enjoyed two big plates of food and fed a couple of the people in my building who have nothing.&#160; Thanksgiving dinner always puts me to sleep, so I was sacrilegious to the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, missing most of two games.&#160; Thanksgiving is a slow day for political news, but I did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/open-thread11252011\/' 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-6378","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\/6378","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=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}