{"id":7854,"date":"2012-05-26T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2012-05-26T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:48:38","slug":"open-thread5262012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/open-thread5262012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/26\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was just too tired to get the sleep I needed, so I\u2019m only putting up an Open Thread today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I expect to put up a full slate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:27 (average 4:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-05-26-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\/mitt-romneys-numbers-here-make-george-w-bush-look-like-a-rocket-scientist\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Numbers Here Make George W. Bush Look Like A Rocket Scientist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/26Rmoney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"26Rmoney\" border=\"0\" alt=\"26Rmoney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/26Rmoney_thumb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s why Rmoney wants to etch the sketch on Massachusetts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/26\/science\/space\/space-x-capsule-docks-at-space-station.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>High above northwestern Australia, a robotic arm on the International Space Station grabbed onto a cargo capsule floating 10 meters away. <\/p>\n<p>With that penultimate act, the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, Calif., or SpaceX, made history as the first private company to send a craft, the Dragon, to the station. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I still oppose exclusively privatizing space exploration, but at least someone is doing something.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45755822\/ns\/msnbc_tv-the_ed_show\/#47572605\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>Bernie Sanders joins Ed Schultz to support Barack Obama against Romney&#8217;s lies.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc3bff7\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=47572605^0^676877&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc3bff7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=47572605^0^676877&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Everything that Obama has sais about Rmoney and his history are both accurate and appropriate. As always Bernie is spot on. As Sanders is an Independent socialist, 3rd party advocates should note his support for Obama and the Democratic Party. I also want Obama to go to Fitzwalkerstan.<\/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\/2012\/05\/26Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was just too tired to get the sleep I needed, so I\u2019m only putting up an Open Thread today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I expect to put up a full slate. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:27 (average 4:46).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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