Open Thread–3/11/2011

Wednesday’s activities must have really worn me out, because I dozed intermittently mist of yesterday.  I am up to date with comments.  Tomorrow’s articles may be late, because tonight I will be co-facilitating our CoDA group and will be out late, so I may sleep later than normal.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:16 (5:22 average).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From NY Times: With little hope of a budget deal being reached before the end of next week, House Republicans are preparing another short-term spending measure to give the House and Senate a chance to come to agreement over a broader plan to keep the government operating through Sept. 30.

Republicans are afraid to kill their hostage, but refuse to let it go.

From Alternet: Western powers head into pivotal Libya crisis talks Friday divided over a British-French push for formal recognition of Moamer Kadhafi’s opponents and a Paris plea for limited airstrikes.

Emotionally I like the idea of airstrikes against Daffy Kaddafi, but my practical side says no.  Without a clear goal and a planned exit strategy, we could be opening another bottomless pit.

From Crooks and Liars: You know, I used to have some respect for Jack Cafferty even though I knew back then that we were on primarily opposite ends of the political spectrum because he spoke out against the Bush administration when that wasn’t necessarily the most popular thing for a conservative to be doing, but he just lost me completely here. Calling Social Security a "welfare program" is just shameless.

Is it any wonder this country is going to hell in a hand basket when CNN sounds just like Fox.

Cartoon:

TGIF!!