{"id":6727,"date":"2012-01-12T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:03:07","slug":"open-thread1122012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/open-thread1122012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/12\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I slept late.  I\u2019m not surprised after covering New Hampshire and the Bonamici debate on the same day.  I spent some time organizing volunteer work, and I\u2019ll be spending three days a month in the prison instead of two this year.  I\u2019m current with replies.  I still have that paperwork to do today<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:45 (average 5:12).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Pat Buchanan\u2019s explanation for his problems at MSNBC is exactly what you might expect: \u201cMilitant gay rights groups\u201d and \u201cpeople of color, Van Jones\u201d are responsible.<\/p>\n

Bull! Buchanan is responsible,because he went on a ite supremacist radio show and spewed his racist filth to promote his book.<\/font><\/p>\n

From AP\/Google<\/a>: <\/font>It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war.<\/p>\n

The attack \u2014 which instantly killed the scientist and fatally wounded his driver on Wednesday \u2014 was at least the fourth targeted hit against a member of Iran’s nuclear brain trust in two years. Tehran quickly blamed Israeli-linked agents backed by the U.S. and Britain.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton denied any U.S. role in the slaying, and the Obama administration condemned the attack. However, provocative hints from Jerusalem reinforced the perception of an organized and clandestine campaign to set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n

This has all the earmarks of act of Israeli terrorism, but I have no doubt that there will be people blaming Obama.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Five senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score [Koch delinked] from the Koch brothers\u2019 Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers\u2019 right-wing petrochemical empire [Koch delinked] on such issues as the repeal of President Obama\u2019s new health care law, preempting EPA\u2019s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Chairman Paul Ryan\u2019s budget to end Medicare, ending ethanol subsidies, several Congressional Review Act resolutions of disapproval to overturn new regulations and the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bills.<\/p>\n

Click through to find out who the corrupt Koch suckers are.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Yesterday I slept late.  I\u2019m not surprised after covering New Hampshire and the Bonamici debate on the same day.  I spent some time organizing volunteer work, and I\u2019ll be spending three days a month in the prison instead of two this year.  I\u2019m current with replies.  I still have that paperwork to do today Jig […]<\/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-6727","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\/6727","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=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}