{"id":92,"date":"2009-10-04T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-10-04T02:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T10:19:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-1042009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1042009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 10\/4\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the best laid plans of mice and men, I discovered that the backup software requires more space for the image file (made before writing it to DVD) than is available on my 2nd partition, so I\u2019ll have to get a USB drive to use it, so instead of swapping disks all day as planned, I visited my whole blog roll. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s probably a good thing, since today is a holy day in the First Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I will be offline watching NFL games.&#160; I fully expect the Bronco\u2019s winning streak to be severely threatened, since they are paying a quality team for the first time this year.&#160; Maybe they\u2019ll surprise me, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 6:56.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-10-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a new ad, confronting Boner Boehner\u2019s bogus claim that he has met nobody who favors the public option.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hS6aN_M0VhU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hS6aN_M0VhU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hat-Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/10\/3\/789184\/-John-Boehner-May-Not-Have-Met-Any-Public-Option-Supporters\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he\u2019s confused.&#160; There have been no <em>family values<\/em> scandals concerning him, because no matter how hard he tries to get into one, he has met nobody that favors the pubic option with him.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some humor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Cameron Cardow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Cameron Cardow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091002\/cam.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Cameron Cardow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/cam.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Cameron Cardow<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <atarget title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091002\/cam.jpg\" =\"_BLANK\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sound off, and have a wonderful Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the best laid plans of mice and men, I discovered that the backup software requires more space for the image file (made before writing it to DVD) than is available on my 2nd partition, so I\u2019ll have to get a USB drive to use it, so instead of swapping disks all day as planned, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1042009\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}