{"id":2808,"date":"2010-09-08T02:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2010-09-08T02:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T09:11:38","slug":"open-thread-982010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/open-thread-982010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 9\/8\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my trip to the doctor took over four hours, as anticipated, and I had no time to reply to comments or return visits.&#160; Today will likely be the same, as I\u2019m doing volunteer work with former prisoners.&#160; Tomorrow looks better.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:27.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-09-08-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:\/\/www.adn.com\/2010\/09\/07\/1443217\/libertarians-cool-to-senate-run.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Daily News<\/a>: <\/font>The five-member executive committee of the Libertarian Party met Aug. 29 and unanimously voted against considering allowing Murkowski on its ticket.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why am I not surprised, Could it be that, if Murkowski is Libertarian, then John \u201cAgent Orange\u201d Boehner is Muslim?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/sep\/07\/france-protests-pensions-millions\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>: <\/font>French protesters furious over the government&#8217;s proposals to change the pensions system flooded the boulevards of cities from Paris to Marseille today as Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s embattled labour minister presented the reform to a parliament echoing with jeers.<\/p>\n<p>Huge numbers of people \u2013 1.1 million according to the government, 2.7 million according to the leading CGT union \u2013 turned out throughout France to demonstrate against plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This makes it crystal clear that we Americans could take a lesson in civics from the French.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/09\/07-5\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>The European Union will prolong the global downturn if policymakers in the bloc&#8217;s big economies insist on austerity measures to cut budget deficits, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Stiglitz\u2019 view applies equally to the US.&#160; Now is not the time for austerity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"8cam\" border=\"0\" alt=\"8cam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/8cam.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"415\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my trip to the doctor took over four hours, as anticipated, and I had no time to reply to comments or return visits.&#160; Today will likely be the same, as I\u2019m doing volunteer work with former prisoners.&#160; Tomorrow looks better. 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