{"id":7368,"date":"2012-03-10T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2012-03-09T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T01:54:00","slug":"open-thread3102012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/open-thread3102012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/10\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my volunteer appointment took much longer than expected, and I returned home tired out.  It was too late to do the research I needed to do today.  Therefore, this will be my only post today.  I\u2019m writing it early and setting it to release automatically just after midnight, so I can go to bed.  I am not current with replies and will catch up ASAP, hopefully today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

It\u2019s not out yet, so I\u2019ll put two in tomorrow\u2019s Open Thread.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Tumblr<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican Platform, 2012<\/p>\n

\"10RepublicanPlatfdorm\"<\/p>\n

Is this spot-on, or What?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/font>U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recession ended. The unemployment rate was unchanged, largely because more people streamed into the work force.<\/p>\n

The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate stayed at 8.3 percent last month, the lowest in three years.<\/p>\n

And hiring in January and December was better than first thought. The government revised those figures to show 61,000 an additional jobs.<\/p>\n

Republicans are calling this a failure, even though the last six months have had the best for job growth in over six years.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>A decision by a federal appeals court to block two major provisions of Alabama\u2019s immigrant law is a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n

On March 8, 2012, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, US v. Alabama, and Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama v. Bentley, enjoined two key provisions of the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer Citizen and Protection Act: one that barred Alabama courts from enforcing contracts with unauthorized immigrants and another that barred the state from entering into \u201cbusiness transactions\u201d with unauthorized immigrants.<\/p>\n

Because this is good for America, it\u2019s bad for the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"10Cartoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my volunteer appointment took much longer than expected, and I returned home tired out.  It was too late to do the research I needed to do today.  Therefore, this will be my only post today.  I\u2019m writing it early and setting it to release automatically just after midnight, so I can go to bed.  […]<\/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-7368","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\/7368","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=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}