{"id":7925,"date":"2012-06-04T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2012-06-04T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:30:55","slug":"open-thread642012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/open-thread642012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/4\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept a little better last night, despite helicopters waking me up at 11.&#160; The Portland Rose Festival is a celebration of Spring, so almost every year the city retreats into winter the minute the festival begins.&#160; This year is no exception.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow should be a normal day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:28 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-06-04-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\/a-message-to-those-who-still-think-they-can-tell-american-women-no\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>A Message To Those Who Still Think They Can Tell American Women &#8216;No&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROcitbHxmIk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m sure I don&#8217;t have to tell you who THEY are.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/06\/04\/12047175-obama-win-could-cost-romney-5m-in-personal-taxes?lite\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>To see where the presidential candidates stand on taxing the rich, just look at how they&#8217;d tax themselves. Under his own proposal, Mitt Romney would pay half what he would under President Barack Obama&#8217;s tax plan. For a man of Romney&#8217;s means, that could save almost $5 million a year. <\/p>\n<p>For Obama, not so loaded as Romney but still well-off, losing re-election could provide a tax windfall. He&#8217;d save as much as $90,000 a year if Romney&#8217;s plan were enacted rather than his own tax-the-rich vision. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If that does not clarify who represents who, nothing will.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.providencejournal.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/3000-progressives-heading-for-providence-netroots-nation-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">Providence Journal<\/a>: <\/font>In a coup for Providence, nearly 3,000 progressive bloggers, grassroots and union activists, online organizers, journalists and more are gathering here this week for the seventh annual &quot;Netroots Nation&quot; convention. <\/p>\n<p>The Thursday-through-Sunday event at the Rhode Island Convention Center is bringing top-drawer speakers, including Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman, national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Planned Parenthood of America President Cecile Richards. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a broad agenda ranging from &quot;the 2012 War on Women,&quot; foreclosure fraud and climate change, to labor issues, the death penalty and strategies for effecting political change &#8212; including in this year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m envious.&#160; That should prove most interesting.<\/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\/06\/4Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept a little better last night, despite helicopters waking me up at 11.&#160; The Portland Rose Festival is a celebration of Spring, so almost every year the city retreats into winter the minute the festival begins.&#160; This year is no exception.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow should be a normal day. 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