{"id":7693,"date":"2012-05-07T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:35:46","slug":"open-thread572011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/open-thread572011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/7\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today my UPS is out on the truck for delivery by UPS, so I will get it and have a lot of work to do setting it up and configuring it.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have a month\u2019s grocery delivery coming.&#160; Unpacking it and putting it away always tales several hours, so my articles could be late.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:53 (average 5:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-05-07-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\/one%2Dpowerful%2Dmessage%2Dfrom%2Dhillary%2Dclinton%2Dregarding%2Dthe%2Dwar%2Don%2Dwomen\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>One Powerful Message From Hillary Clinton Regarding The War On Women<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7hillary\" alt=\"7hillary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7hillary.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She makes a completely valid point.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/teaparty\/155146\/10_constituent_groups_mitt_romney_would_screw_over?page=entire\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>: <\/font>That\u2019s the heart, and what passes for the soul of Mitt Romney, who somehow extracted an interpretation of the president\u2019s words which led to this absurd criticism: \u201cThis is a president more intent on punishing people than he is on building our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even a cursory examination of the facts makes it clear that it is Romney who is The Punisher. His policies, if enacted, will punish a broad spectrum of Americans from almost every possible constituent group.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for an excellent list of constituent groups that Rmoney will screw, if elected.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postonpolitics.com\/2012\/05\/new-obama-ad-reminds-voters-of-economic-woes-before-this-president-took-the-oath\/comment-page-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Beach Post<\/a>: <\/font>New Obama ad reminds voters of economic woes \u2018before THIS president took the oath\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F0OVngTHkNg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It differs from Republican ads in that it&#8217;s a lie-free zone.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7Cartoon\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my UPS is out on the truck for delivery by UPS, so I will get it and have a lot of work to do setting it up and configuring it.&#160; I\u2019m current on replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have a month\u2019s grocery delivery coming.&#160; Unpacking it and putting it away always tales several hours, so my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/open-thread572011-2\/' 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-7693","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\/7693","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=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}