{"id":7470,"date":"2012-03-26T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:20:51","slug":"open-thread3262012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/open-thread3262012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–3\/26\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got up a couple hours early this morning to get a head start, because I have a month\u2019s groceries being delivered today, and I\u2019ll be pooped when I get them unpacked and put away.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so There may be no articles.  It will depend on how the day goes.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:59 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From The Guardian<\/a>: <\/font>The US and China have agreed to co-ordinate their response if North Korea goes through with a planned rocket launch next month, a day after Barack Obama urged Beijing to use its influence to rein in its unpredictable ally.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the start of a two-day summit on nuclear security in the South Korean capital, Seoul, the US president said China and the US had a shared interest in preventing nuclear proliferation.<\/p>\n

I consider this a far more sensible approach that the Republican method: threats followed by invasion.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Taking advantage of relaxed campaign finance laws, a cadre of deep-pocketed donors are spending gobs of money to bankroll super PACs, a phenomenon that is reshaping the modern election cycle.<\/p>\n

It is a select group. The top 100 individual super PAC donors make up just 3.7% of those who have contributed to the new money vehicles, but account for more than 80% of the total money raised, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. <\/p>\n

And just the top 46 donors have given a total of $67 million, or two-thirds of the $112 million in individual gifts to super PACs this cycle. Membership in this select group requires a $500,000 minimum donation. <\/p>\n

According to SCROTUS, rich people deserve FAR more \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d than we do.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>When the Supreme Court put its stamp of approval on the creation of super PACs<\/a>, they could never have seen this one coming. <\/p>\n

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain<\/a> has launched a new advertisement showing a man catapaulting a bunny rabbit and blasting it into bloody chunks, as a little girl compares the animal to \u201csmall business\u201d in the current U.S. economic climate. <\/p>\n

Leave it to Republicans to murder innocent animals to stimulate Republican blood-lust, just to promote a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: (Hat Tip Lynn Squance)<\/font><\/p>\n

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I got up a couple hours early this morning to get a head start, because I have a month\u2019s groceries being delivered today, and I\u2019ll be pooped when I get them unpacked and put away.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so There may be no articles.  It will depend on […]<\/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-7470","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\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}