{"id":7660,"date":"2012-05-04T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2012-05-04T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:27:15","slug":"open-thread542012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/open-thread542012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/4\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m trying to get blogging done a little early today, as I have a lot of chores to do.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have errands to run.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:48 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-05-04-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:\/\/front.moveon.org\/robert%2Dreich%2Dexplains%2Dhow%2Dmitt%2Dromney%2Dgot%2Dobscenely%2Drich\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Robert Reich Explains How Mitt Romney Got Obscenely Rich<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rodifJlis2c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What we have here is Robin Hood in reverse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/french-presidential-campaign-ends-with-sarkozy-trailing\/2012\/05\/04\/gIQA2QKF1T_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>France wound up a long and rancorous presidential campaign Friday with opinion polls predicting victory for Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who promises economic stimulus measures to soften the austerity cutbacks imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy during the European debt crisis.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The runoff is May 6, so we should know for sure Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/05\/03\/11525729-immigration-nightmare-army-soldiers-wife-detained-after-arizona-traffic-stop\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>A quick trip to the store to buy supplies for her 3-year-old daughter\u2019s birthday party turned into a two-day nightmare for a U.S. Army soldier\u2019s wife, who after being stopped for a minor traffic violation found herself threatened with deportation while her husband is stationed overseas.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Needless to say this happened in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Brewerstan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"4Cartoon\" alt=\"4Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/4Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m trying to get blogging done a little early today, as I have a lot of chores to do.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have errands to run. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:48 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: Robert Reich Explains How <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/open-thread542012\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","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\/7660","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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}