{"id":7858,"date":"2012-05-27T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2012-05-27T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:49:21","slug":"open-thread5272012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/27\/open-thread5272012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/27\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still not fully recovered from my volunteer work last week, so I\u2019m going to rest one more day.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Barring unforeseen circumstances, I\u2019ll be all the way back tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:21 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-05-27-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-reichs-smart-take-on-the-kind-of-morality-thats-been-bad-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Robert Reich&#8217;s Smart Take On The Kind Of &#8216;Morality&#8217; That&#8217;s Been Bad For America<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TB73Lw1XtE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It seems that Republicans are interested in <strong>pubic<\/strong> morality, not <strong>public<\/strong> morality, and then, only when it isn&#8217;t their own <strong>pubic<\/strong> morality.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/for-first-time-gay-students-at-major-military-academies-participate-in-major-events-openly\/2012\/05\/27\/gJQAJu1FuU_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Gay students at America\u2019s military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, gay students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis were able to take a same-sex date to the academy\u2019s Ring Dance for third-year midshipmen. The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., officially recognized a club for gay students this month. And gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., are relieved they no longer have to worry about revealing their sexuality.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a proud accomplishment for the LGBT community, and the Democrats who fought fore them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/05\/25\/usa-campaign-obama-idUSL1E8GP0L620120525\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>After weeks of painting Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing corporate raider, President Barack Obama and his re-election campaign are broadening their attack to include Romney&#8217;s record as Massachusetts governor, arguing his policies hurt the state.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, in an impassioned campaign speech in the battleground state of Iowa on Thursday night, foreshadowed that shift in strategy when he said Romney had made his business experience the centerpiece of his candidacy but &quot;doesn&#8217;t really talk about what he did in Massachusetts.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The move, described by campaign officials, marks a change from the campaign&#8217;s recent main focus on Romney&#8217;s time as a private equity executive at Bain Capital aimed at casting him as more concerned with the wealthy than the middle class.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s an understatement! Romney is not more concerned with the wealthy. He is <strong>only<\/strong> concerned with the wealthy!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"27Cartoon\" alt=\"27Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/27Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still not fully recovered from my volunteer work last week, so I\u2019m going to rest one more day.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Barring unforeseen circumstances, I\u2019ll be all the way back tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:21 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/27\/open-thread5272012\/' 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-7858","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\/7858","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=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}