{"id":6692,"date":"2012-01-09T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2012-01-09T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:00:26","slug":"open-thread192012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/open-thread192012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I was quite happy with the Bronco\u2019s performance, scoring 29 points against the league\u2019s #1 defense, and it was one hell of a good game, ending with a touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage in OT.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today I have a ton of paperwork to do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:17 (average 4:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-01-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"0108-Broncos29-Steelers23\" alt=\"0108-Broncos29-Steelers23\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/0108-Broncos29-Steelers23.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/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\/the-secret-that-mitt-romney-doesnt-want-you-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Secret That Mitt Romney Doesn&#8217;t Want You To Know<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIUNtHm22-Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Multiple Mitt has created lots of jobs\u2026 in China.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/story\/2012-01-08\/iran-nuclear-weapons\/52451620\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take that step.<\/p>\n<p>As he has previously, Panetta cautioned against a unilateral strike by Israel against Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, saying the action could trigger Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces in the region.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In stark contrast, the Republican war drums beat on.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/01\/08\/400052\/romney-suggests-only-wealthy-people-should-run-for-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>During Sunday morning\u2019s Meet the Press debate, GOP front-runner Mitt Romney suggested that people who need a job to pay to their mortgage shouldn\u2019t run for office. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Only the super rich are fit to govern in Mitt\u2019s view.&#160; How Republican!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"9Cartoon\" alt=\"9Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/9Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I was quite happy with the Bronco\u2019s performance, scoring 29 points against the league\u2019s #1 defense, and it was one hell of a good game, ending with a touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage in OT.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/open-thread192012\/' 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-6692","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\/6692","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=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}