{"id":5910,"date":"2011-09-22T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2011-09-22T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:02:54","slug":"open-thread9222011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/open-thread9222011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/22\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I rested as much as I could, but I spent much of the day trying to keep up with the murders in Georgia and Texas.  I\u2019m current on replies  Today I\u2019ll be in prison working with my guys, I will be home late and sleepless, so I may need to take tomorrow off, or If I do post, it will likely be late.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 4:00 (average 4:50).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>A defense attorney says Georgia prison officials have blocked inmate Troy Davis from taking a polygraph test before his scheduled execution.<\/p>\n

Attorney Stephen Marsh told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Georgia Department of Corrections has denied his request to allow Davis to take a polygraph test. Davis is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Republicans did not want more evidence that they have murdered an innocent man.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>For those labeling President Barack Obama’s recent comments about taxes "class warfare," a majority of Americans may think differently. <\/p>\n

At least two-thirds of Americans believe that high income earners should be taxed at a larger rate, according to a recent poll from Gallup<\/a> about Obama’s jobs plan proposals. <\/p>\n

Sixty-six percent of Americans told the polling firm that individuals making at least $200,000, or families bring home $250,000, should see an increase in taxes. There’s an even larger majority in favoring an elimination of tax deductions for corporations, with 70 percent of the public agreeing that wealthy corporations should pay higher taxes. <\/p>\n

This is why this must be the signature issue.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, I rested as much as I could, but I spent much of the day trying to keep up with the murders in Georgia and Texas.  I\u2019m current on replies  Today I\u2019ll be in prison working with my guys, I will be home late and sleepless, so I may need to take tomorrow off, or […]<\/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-5910","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\/5910","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=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}