{"id":14491,"date":"2015-01-12T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14491"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T08:00:26","slug":"open-thread1122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/open-thread1122015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/12\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 68.&#160; I\u2019m hurrying to finish before it\u2019s time to meditate on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 5:20).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2015-01-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Ultimate Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"p0111-Broncos13-Colts24\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"p0111-Broncos13-Colts24\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/p0111-Broncos13-Colts24.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/01\/10\/1356798\/-George-Zimmerman-Arrested-Charged-With-Aggravated-Assault-Domestic-Violence-With-A-Weapon\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>George Zimmerman, 31, made his first court appearance on Saturday morning after being arrested by Lake Mary police on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/10\/us\/george-zimmerman-arrested\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to Zimmerman&#8217;s attorney<\/a>, the arrest was due to allegedly throwing a wine bottle at a girlfriend &quot;several days ago.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman was arrested in 2013 for alleged domestic violence against a girlfriend, although a Lake Mary police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/10\/us\/george-zimmerman-arrested\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">spokeswoman said<\/a> &quot;this alleged &quot;victim is not the same (woman) as in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Pbjsjv2kH-8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I wonder if this Republican hero used one of the guns Republican Ammosexuals gave him to replace the gun he used to murder Trayvon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/gun-rights-from-holsters-to-bras.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>For all the clich\u00e9s about pistol-packing Texas, the state is one of the few that has not yet succumbed to the gun lobby\u2019s big push to let citizens carry handguns at the hip wherever they go. That may be about to change as the State Legislature convenes next week with open carry a top priority of the Republican majority and with Governor-elect Greg Abbott pledging to sign it into law. The result could produce a far from reassuring civic tableau if even a modest number of the 800,000 Texans who have concealed-carry licenses choose to strap their weapons on in public.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Who would have ever thought I&#8217;d have an opportunity to say that Texas is about to get more insane?!!?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/01\/10\/what-the-heck-is-mitt-romney-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney sent a very clear message to a group of major donors in New York City on Friday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/romney-to-gop-donors-i-want-to-be-president\/2015\/01\/09\/ce5f821a-9848-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m thinking about running<\/a> for president in 2016.&#160; Then, as he knew they would, those donors spread that message to every media outlet in the country.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a stunning reversal from public &#8212; and private &#8212; assertions from Romney and his allies that, after two runs for president in 2008 and 2012, he was absolutely, 100 percent done with running.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He etched his sketch and poof!! His is a face we know well.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Romney2Face\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Romney2Face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Romney2Face.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"310\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In fact, both are.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0112Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0112Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0112Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I bet they\u2019re about to try it again.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 68.&#160; I\u2019m hurrying to finish before it\u2019s time to meditate on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:06 (average 5:20).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Ultimate Religious Agony: Short Takes: From Daily Kos: George Zimmerman, 31, made his first court appearance on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/open-thread1122015\/' 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-14491","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\/14491","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=14491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}