{"id":7036,"date":"2012-02-08T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T08:00:23","slug":"open-thread282012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/open-thread282012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–2\/8\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I overslept again.  I did some of my paperwork done.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I have more paperwork and all the housework. \ud83d\ude41 <\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:55 (average 4:56).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Secret That Haters Just Don’t Get<\/p>\n

\"8haters-full\"<\/p>\n

This is the answer to Republican bigotry.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Former RNC chairman Michael Steele was on MSNBC’s "NOW with Alex Wagner" this morning and used the Ron Paul "states’ rights defense" to attack gay marriage during a debate on the Prop 8 ruling with Don Choi. But when he was asked by John Heilemann how he would feel if a state passed a law saying he couldn’t marry a white woman, he went into an incoherent and belligerent rant about his skin color making bigotry against gays different from racism against blacks, and used the typical conservative tactic of feigned outrage at even being asked the question. Huh? See, he didn’t appreciate being asked THAT question when trying to justified HIS flawed position. Hey, Michael, racism and bigotry hurt.<\/p>\n

Republicans hate prejudice, except when they are the ones using it, which is most the time.  Click through for the video.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>While Catholic leaders and Republicans have distorted the Obama administration\u2019s rule requiring employers to provide contraception at no additional cost, a majority of Americans, including a majority of Catholics, support such a requirement<\/a>, according to a new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute. The requirement garners support from 55 percent of Americans and 58 percent of Catholics, though the number is slightly lower (52 percent) for Catholic voters.<\/p>\n

Sorry GOP.  You can claim religious freedom when the adherents of the religion, you claim to speak for, do not want what you want to enforce!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"8Cartoon\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Note: The pictograph is the Chinese character for hate.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I overslept again.  I did some of my paperwork done.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Today I have more paperwork and all the housework. \ud83d\ude41 Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:55 (average 4:56).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: The Secret That Haters Just Don’t Get […]<\/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-7036","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\/7036","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=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}