{"id":6383,"date":"2011-11-26T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/open-thread11262011\/"},"modified":"2011-11-26T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:02:13","slug":"open-thread11262011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/open-thread11262011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/26\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I rested for most of the day, attempting to heal up.&#160; I celebrated Black Friday in the proper way and spent nothing.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Today is another much needed rest day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:40 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-11-26-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:\/\/front.moveon.org\/the-0-0-0-tax-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn.org<\/a>: Zero-Zero-Zero<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMNDrf8J9pE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The ultimate Republican tax plan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/11\/police-to-review-videotape-in-wal-mart-pepper-spray-incident.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Los Angeles police detectives hope to retrieve video surveillance evidence from a Porter Ranch Wal-Mart store by early Friday afternoon to begin trying to identify a woman who shot pepper spray at other shoppers to get a Black Friday competitive edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to check the video surveillance and hope the cameras were pointed in the right direction,\u201d said LAPD Sgt. R.J. Valle of the Devonshire station.<\/p>\n<p>The woman apparently sought to purchase an Xbox video game console and used the spray to clear out other shoppers. About 20 customers, including children, were hurt in the Thursday night incident, which police officials called \u201cshopping rage.\u201d Shoppers complained of minor skin and eye irritation and sore throats.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This women must have been a Republican, given the level of her greed and given that only viewers of the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, think pepper spray is harmless.&#160; In addition, most Democrats boycott Wal-Fart for their causing the outsourcing of US jobs, anti-labor tactics, and employee abuse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/11\/25\/wind-power-to-make-up-half-of-danish-energy-use-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>Denmark aims to have wind power supply half of the country\u2019s electricity needs in 2020, under a new programme presented by Climate and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That\u2019s an example we should follow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"26Cartoon\" alt=\"26Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/26Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I rested for most of the day, attempting to heal up.&#160; I celebrated Black Friday in the proper way and spent nothing.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Today is another much needed rest day. 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