{"id":7556,"date":"2012-04-16T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2012-04-16T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:15:01","slug":"open-thread4162012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/open-thread4162012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–4\/16\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

My trip to the doctor took over five hours.  All I really did is make a contribution to the vampire, and I\u2019ll have another follow-up in two weeks.  This will be today\u2019s only article,  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow is as catch-up day.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:49 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Reality Check We Can’t Wait To See In November.<\/p>\n

\"16women\"<\/a><\/p>\n

May they reap what they have sown.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>This week, the House Republican leadership is expected to bring up the \u201cSmall Business Tax Cut Act<\/a>,\u201d a bill to let most business owners deduct up to 20 percent of their business income in 2012 \u2014 a $46 billion tax cut. Despite the Mom-and-Pop label, it is designed so that nearly half of the tax cut would go to people with annual income over $1 million, and more than four-fifths would go to those making over $200,000, according to the Tax Policy Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n

$rMoney$ must consider Bain a small business.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>The Real Romneys of Palm Beach<\/p>\n

 <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Romney’s intended course is great for millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals, but it’s TERRIBLE for YOU!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"16Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My trip to the doctor took over five hours.  All I really did is make a contribution to the vampire, and I\u2019ll have another follow-up in two weeks.  This will be today\u2019s only article,  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow is as catch-up day. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:49 (average 4:32).  To do it, […]<\/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-7556","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\/7556","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=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}