{"id":7534,"date":"2012-04-14T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7534"},"modified":"2012-04-14T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:05:20","slug":"open-thread4142012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/open-thread4142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/14\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I\u2019m trying to climb out of the pit and return to blogging.  I\u2019m well short of 100%, because even Imodium and Yogurt is not sufficient to overcome the side-effects of my antibiotic, but it\u2019s now every few hours instead of every few minutes.  My last two doses are today, thank goodness!  I\u2019m not current with replies, but will return to my normal replying starting with today\u2019s articles.  I hope to post again tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Date      My Time    Average    Link<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n

3\/30      4:50          4:57       here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

3\/31      4:14          5:08       here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/1        3:21          4:29      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/2        4:21          5:22      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/3        3:51          4:39      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/4        3:28          4:40      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/5        3:19          4:27      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/6        4:32          5:31      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/7        4:33          5:26      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/8        4:28          5:44      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/9        3:34          4:41      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/10      3:07          4:55      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/11      4:34          5:17      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/12      4:05          5:23      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/13      4:36          5:27      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

4\/14      4:13          4:39      here<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The One Question That Will Stump ALL Your Republican Friends<\/p>\n

\"15WhyMore\"<\/p>\n

Perhaps we have greed trumping need.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Rachel Maddow discusses Drift<\/u> with Bill Maher.<\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Although I don\u2019t always agree withy him, Maher is fascinating when he isn\u2019t trying to be funny.<\/font><\/p>\n

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama leads Mitt Romney in the arena that counts — the Electoral College — but does not have the 270 electoral votes needed to renew his lease on the White House, according to an Associated Press analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obama would have 242 electoral votes in states where he has big leads, or that are leaning his way, the AP says. Romney, the likely Republican nominee, is favored or has narrow leads in states with 188 electoral votes.<\/p>\n

Nine states with 104 electoral are up for grabs, AP said, and will likely decide the election.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a bit early to put much stock in polls, but as the election grows closer, I\u2019ll be doing closer analysis of what we might expect.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Well, I\u2019m trying to climb out of the pit and return to blogging.  I\u2019m well short of 100%, because even Imodium and Yogurt is not sufficient to overcome the side-effects of my antibiotic, but it\u2019s now every few hours instead of every few minutes.  My last two doses are today, thank goodness!  I\u2019m not current […]<\/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-7534","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\/7534","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=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}