{"id":7354,"date":"2012-03-09T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2012-03-09T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:00:28","slug":"open-thread392012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/open-thread392012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/9\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I slept late, defeated a mountain of mail, and did some extra research.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today I have a lunch meeting with a former prisoner, who was released a couple months ago, to review his progress and determine what additional assistance he may need.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:45 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-03-09-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:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/826534\/women_call_for_equality_on_their_day_of_rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>UN women leaders on Thursday called for greater equality between the sexes on the occasion of International Women&#8217;s Day amid demonstrations and marches for female rights.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you to all the wonderful women, without whom life would not be livable.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/james-inhofe-says-bible-refutes-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) appeared on Voice of Christian Youth America\u2019s radio program Crosstalk with Vic Eliason yesterday to promote his new book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, where he repeated his <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2009\/09\/25\/61618\/inhofe-god-cycles\/\" target=\"_blank\">recurrent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2006\/11\/17\/8694\/inhofe-hoax\/\">claim<\/a> that human influenced climate change is impossible because \u201cGod\u2019s still up there.\u201d Inhofe cited <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=198231443\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis 8:22<\/a> to claim that it is \u201coutrageous\u201d and arrogant for people to believe human beings are \u201cable to change what He is doing in the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What is really outrageous and arrogant is having a US Senator ignoring the Establishment Clause, and trying to legislate Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2012\/03\/08-0\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>The Canadian military has had a close relationship for years with Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater, and was paid $2.4 million to train Canadian soldiers in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In case you have not heard, Xe, aka the Republican SS, is now owned by Monsanto the GMO company.<\/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\/03\/9Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I slept late, defeated a mountain of mail, and did some extra research.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today I have a lunch meeting with a former prisoner, who was released a couple months ago, to review his progress and determine what additional assistance he may need. 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