{"id":7132,"date":"2012-02-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2012-02-14T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T06:30:38","slug":"open-thread2152012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/open-thread2152012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/15\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I felt so tired when I returned home from the prison that I wrote this, set it to be published right after midnight, and went to bed.&#160; The meeting was excellent.&#160; Three new men joined our CoDA group there.&#160; We did some insightful digging and made excellent progress.&#160; I cannot say more without violating confidence, except that I could not be more proud of my guys.&#160; I am not current with replies.&#160; Today is a day for catch-up and recovery.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was not out yet.&#160; I\u2019ll put up two tomorrow.<\/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\/what%2Dif%2Deveryone%2Dsaw%2Dthis%2Dmessage%2Dfrom%2Drobert%2Dredford\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What If Everyone Saw This Message From Robert Redford?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCHNoUcxRvY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keep saying NO to Big Oil!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-02-14\/n-j-senate-approves-gay-marriage-as-christie-veto-threat-looms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Business Week<\/a>: <\/font>The New Jersey Senate passed a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, in the face of Republican Governor Chris Christie\u2019s promise to veto it.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 24-16 in favor of the measure, sending it to the Assembly, which plans to consider it Feb. 16. Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, have made gay marriage a priority for 2012, two years after they failed to pass a similar bill supported by then-Governor Jon Corzine.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Christie vetoes it, pass it again!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/independent_voters_swing_to_obama_20120213\/\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Dig<\/a>: <\/font>The prolonged Republican primary campaign appears to be taking a toll on independent voters\u2019 faith in Mitt Romney. According to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2012\/02\/13\/santorum-catches-romney-in-gop-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew poll<\/a>, only a minority of independents now describe Romney as \u201chonest and trustworthy\u201d and slightly more than half of independent voters now favor Barack Obama in a race against Romney, who led the president in that category only a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>As is pointed out every four years or so, so-called independent voters typically decide presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s still way too early to depend on polls, but this is positive news, especially since Obama does even better compared to the Frothmeister.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"15Cartoon\" alt=\"15Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/15Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I felt so tired when I returned home from the prison that I wrote this, set it to be published right after midnight, and went to bed.&#160; The meeting was excellent.&#160; Three new men joined our CoDA group there.&#160; We did some insightful digging and made excellent progress.&#160; I cannot say more without violating <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/open-thread2152012\/' 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":[35,3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","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=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}