{"id":6391,"date":"2011-11-27T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/open-thread11292011\/"},"modified":"2011-11-27T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T08:08:48","slug":"open-thread11292011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/open-thread11292011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/27\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday I spent most of the day resting and napping, because I\u2019m still well short of 100%.\u00a0 I\u2019m current with replies.\u00a0 Today is a holy day for the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 Sadly, the service between the Broncos and Chargers won\u2019t be televised here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today it took me 3:49 (average 4:38).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-11-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/the-single-most-important-robert-reich-clip-you-can-share-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn.org<\/a>: Robert Reich: The real public nuisance!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ltxMtS1Frpk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Amen! Occupy our Democracy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/26\/house-democrat-to-pass-on-seeking-re-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rep. Charlie Gonzalez of Texas and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will forgo seeking an eighth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That\u2019s a sad thing for Texas, because Charlie has been a champion for voting rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2011\/11\/26-1\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/span>Turkey sees no possibility of resuming full diplomatic relations with Israel unless Israel apologizes and pays damages for the deaths its commandos caused last year aboard a Turkish ship that was trying to run Israel&#8217;s blockade of the Gaza Strip, Turkey&#8217;s foreign minister said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel buried our friendship in the deep waters of the Mediterranean,&#8221; Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in response to a question on whether Turkish-Israeli relations would recover in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I commend our NATO ally for taking a stand that this country should be supporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"27Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/27Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"27Cartoon\" width=\"659\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent most of the day resting and napping, because I\u2019m still well short of 100%.\u00a0 I\u2019m current with replies.\u00a0 Today is a holy day for the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 Sadly, the service between the Broncos and Chargers won\u2019t be televised here. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:49 (average 4:38).\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/open-thread11292011\/' 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-6391","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\/6391","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=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}