{"id":5849,"date":"2011-09-14T23:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2011-09-14T23:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:59:53","slug":"open-thread9152011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/open-thread9152011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/15\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I ran errands, rested, and worked on my volunteer activities.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Tomorrow I\u2019ll be at Oregon State Penitentiary leading our CoDA group there and working with prisoners.&#160; I shall not get home until the time I normally wake up to write articles, so I\u2019ll be exhausted.&#160; I may take a day off, or my articles may be short and late, so don\u2019t worry.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:40 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-09-15-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:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/kenneth-quinnell\/ohios-vote-no-2-campaign-releases\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: A video from Ohio\u2019s \u201cNo on 2\u201d campaign to stop the union busting in SB5.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4KvaWmhUyY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Go UNION!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2011\/09\/14-2\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Former President Jimmy Carter says he supports the Palestinian campaign for statehood recognition at the United Nations because the Obama administration hasn\u2019t offered a plan for peace in the region.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That isn\u2019t correct.&#160; Israel has rejected Obama\u2019s plan, because they refuse to stop expanding into Palestinian land.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/666004\/update:_rick_perry_and_the_duane_buck_execution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>On Thursday, Duane Buck is set to become the <strong>235th person to be executed during Rick Perry&#8217;s tenure as Governor of Texas<\/strong>. Buck murdered two people and shot a third in 1995, and is, by his own admission, totally guilty. But his death sentence was obtained in party through the testimony of <strong>a since discredited psychologist who stated that Buck&#8217;s race (he&#8217;s black) made him more of a long-term threat<\/strong>. [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rick \u201cthe needle\u201d Perry will probably not take action, because he agrees with the discredited racist psychologist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"15Cartoon\" alt=\"15Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/15Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I ran errands, rested, and worked on my volunteer activities.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Tomorrow I\u2019ll be at Oregon State Penitentiary leading our CoDA group there and working with prisoners.&#160; I shall not get home until the time I normally wake up to write articles, so I\u2019ll be exhausted.&#160; I may take a day <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/open-thread9152011\/' 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-5849","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\/5849","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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}