{"id":6405,"date":"2011-11-29T00:04:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/open-thread11292011-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:04:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:04:46","slug":"open-thread11292011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/open-thread11292011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/29\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was feeling pretty poorly and spent most of the day in bed, but I had a network glitch that took about two hours to restore, and I caught up my email backlog.  I\u2019m also doing laundry as I write and post.  I hate laundry!! I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I\u2019ll be out doing errands,if I can.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 6:03 (average 7:10).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From AP\/Google<\/a>: <\/font>Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback apologized Monday for his office’s response to a disparaging Twitter post by a high school senior who was attending a school function at the state Capitol.<\/p>\n

"My staff overreacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize," Brownback said in a Monday statement emailed to The Associated Press. "Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms."<\/p>\n

Horse feathers! The lying ideologue saw the public outcry and is blaming his staff.  I do not believe they went after her in school without getting an OK from him.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>Citing the political challenges he faced because of congressional redistricting, prominent Democratic Rep. Barney Frank on Monday announced he will not seek re-election in 2012. <\/p>\n

"I don’t want to be torn [between] a full-fledged campaign… and my obligation to my current constituents," Frank said from the Newton, Massachusetts City Hall.<\/p>\n

His district is substantially changed.  Since he was planning to retire in 2014 anyway, I think he wants to avoid the hard campaigning it will take to familiarize his new constituents.  He broke ground as the first openly gay Representative in the US House.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The Daily Beast<\/a>: <\/font>Americans can learn more about foreign policy from The Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/a> than from Republican presidential hopefuls. At least the shrieks of the housewives speak to reality. The Republican wolves howl about a mostly bygone world of dire military threats, a world inhabited by global ghosts to be thwarted by waterboarding and wars. Most of them just don\u2019t see that the old right-wing rhetorical bromides that once scared Americans and dominated campaigning won\u2019t win future elections.<\/p>\n

Republicans could only play the fear card so many times before Americans start to remember that they are the ones who let Osama get away and that 9\/11 would not have happened without their total incompetence.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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