{"id":7891,"date":"2012-06-01T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:13:28","slug":"open-thread612012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/open-thread612012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/1\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m getting an early start today, because I\u2019m quite tired and need to collect the data for tomorrow\u2019s monthly report when I\u2019m done.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have errors to run.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:40 (average 4:19).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Graphic That Every Small Business Owner In The Country Needs You To See (And Share!)<\/p>\n

\"1SmallBusiness\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is no need to oppose business, as long as we oppose corporate criminals, the business segment that the Republican Party supports.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Certainly, Mr. Edwards has lost in the court of public opinion. But on Thursday he was vindicated, for the moment, by a jury of mostly working class North Carolinians who could not reach a verdict on the five charges of campaign finance fraud and conspiracy he faced. <\/p>\n

They acquitted him on one, which was based on a $200,000 check that the heiress Rachel Mellon had written him in January 2008, the month he dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president. <\/p>\n

The Justice Department offered no indication on whether it would retry Mr. Edwards.<\/p>\n

I have long thought that Edwards, whom I used to support, has behaved in a horribly sleazy manner, but I never thought his misdeeds were criminal wrongdoing.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Sacramento Bee<\/a>: <\/font>Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa called on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican Party to prove they haven’t declared war on women and workers by supporting the Paycheck Fairness Act\u2026<\/p>\n

…The Paycheck Fairness Act would hold employers accountable for pay discrepancies between their male and female employees while strengthening incentives to prevent pay discrimination. The legislation, along with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama to allow more time for women to sue for pay disparity, will go a long way toward ending this type of discrimination in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Rmoney refused to support it, and last night, House Republicans, blocked the bill, preventing a vote, and confirming that the Republican War on Women is real.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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I\u2019m getting an early start today, because I\u2019m quite tired and need to collect the data for tomorrow\u2019s monthly report when I\u2019m done.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have errors to run. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:40 (average 4:19).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: […]<\/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-7891","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\/7891","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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}