{"id":10103,"date":"2013-03-10T03:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:26:23","slug":"open-thread3102013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/open-thread3102013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/10\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I slept virtually all day, and it was just what I needed.&#160; I\u2019m feeling much better, except that I can\u2019t stand springing ahead.&#160; An hour is too valuable to give up.&#160; I have a month\u2019s grocery delivery coming today.&#160; Hopefully unpacking and stowing them won\u2019t take too much out of me.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies, and should be here tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:37 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-03-10-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\/warning-you-may-actually-weep-while-watching-the-film-version-of-wisconsins-epic-uprising\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>WARNING: You May Actually Weep While Watching The Film Version Of Wisconsin&#8217;s Epic Uprising [This <em><strong>Short Take<\/strong><\/em> is about 1 1\/4 hours long.]<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/61228133\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Walker sucked so much Koch that he is still Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan. Through the dedication of oppressed people like these, that SHALL change.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/03\/09\/obama-perez--labor\/1976315\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama is poised to select Justice Department official Thomas Perez to be the next labor secretary, according to two people familiar with the deliberation process.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With solid support from Labor and Latinos, Perez appears to be an all too infrequent excellent choice.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/banking-financial-institutions\/287115-holders-remarks-on-banks-too-large-to-prosecute-reignites-controversy\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>: <\/font>Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s surprising comments this week about difficulties prosecuting big banks has lit a new spark under the debate over large financial institutions that has lingered for years on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Holder tackled a wide range of issues from drone policy to gun control, but it was his comments on big banks, after hours of testimony, that raised eyebrows among Wall Street backers and critics\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cThe size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If they are too big to be held accountable for their crimes, which amount to open class warfare, they are too big to exist. Even if breaking them up will hurt the economy, lets get it over with. The longer we wait, the worse it will be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"10Cartoon\" alt=\"10Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/10Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I slept virtually all day, and it was just what I needed.&#160; I\u2019m feeling much better, except that I can\u2019t stand springing ahead.&#160; An hour is too valuable to give up.&#160; I have a month\u2019s grocery delivery coming today.&#160; Hopefully unpacking and stowing them won\u2019t take too much out of me.&#160; I\u2019m current with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/open-thread3102013\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-10103","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\/10103","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=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}