{"id":6682,"date":"2012-01-08T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2012-01-08T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T08:01:17","slug":"open-thread182011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/open-thread182011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/8\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I did not watch the Republican debate.&#160; In this case, religion took the lead over politics.&#160; It was a high holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I was mediating on Texans, Bengals, Lions and Saints.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today is another high holy day and the meditation between the Broncos and Steelers will be televised here.&#160; I\u2019m long on hope, but short on faith.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:46 (average 4:47).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-01-08-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:\/\/front.moveon.org\/how-the-lives-of-2-5-million-young-people-changed-on-112012\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>How The Lives Of 2.5 Million Young People Changed on 1\/1\/2012<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHRY52l2oDI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Obamacare is far short of perfect, but every story like this one makes me glad Obama cared.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/white-house-to-hold-forum-promoting-the-return-of-jobs-to-american-soil\/2012\/01\/07\/gIQAspMYgP_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama is highlighting companies that have returned jobs to the U.S. and he says that\u2019s one more way of putting people back to work.<\/p>\n<p>The White House plans a forum Wednesday, called \u201cInsourcing American Jobs,\u201d that will bring together business leaders who shifted work back home. The president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address that the event will discuss ways business leaders can return more jobs to the country.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I like this idea, because with so many corporate criminals giving business a bad name, it is fitting that companies that are doing right by American workers be recognized as such.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/07\/opinion\/one-bad-energy-subsidy-expires.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Now that the most polarized and paralyzed Congress in memory has managed to kill one of its most resilient boondoggles \u2014 the three-decade-old, multibillion-dollar subsidy for corn ethanol \u2014 we hope it has not exhausted its resolve and will take a hatchet to other harmful energy subsidies, chiefly those it gives to fossil fuels. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have always considered it insane to waste tax dollars subsidizing the conversion of food to fuel, because it costs more that and pollutes more than gasoline, and because we need to use our food to feed people.&#160; Now it\u2019s time to end subsidies for ALL fossil fuels.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"8Cartoon\" alt=\"8Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did not watch the Republican debate.&#160; In this case, religion took the lead over politics.&#160; It was a high holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I was mediating on Texans, Bengals, Lions and Saints.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today is another high holy day and the meditation between the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/open-thread182011-2\/' 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-6682","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\/6682","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=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}