{"id":8017,"date":"2012-06-11T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2012-06-11T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:36:05","slug":"open-thread6112012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/11\/open-thread6112012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/11\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s another slow news day, as the media play \u201che said, she said\u201d over last weeks gaffes.   However I did find a couple interesting items.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I\u2019ll be doing volunteer work in prison, so it\u2019s probable that I\u2019ll post only an open thread.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:04 (average 5:27).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Bernie Sanders Has An Amazingly Simple Idea To Fix Social Security For The Next 75 Years<\/p>\n

\"11SocSec\"<\/p>\n

I disagree with Bernie. If we eliminate the income cap altogether, we fix Social Security permanently.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>Six American families paid no federal income taxes in 2009 while making something on the order of $200 million each. This is one of many stunning revelations in new IRS data that deserves a thorough airing in this year’s election campaign.<\/p>\n

The data, posted on the IRS website last week, brings into sharp focus the debate over whether the rich need more tax cuts (Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans) or should pay higher rates (President Obama and most Democrats).<\/p>\n

Both Romney and Obama think this is unfair.  The difference is that Rmoney thinks it unfair only because he isn\u2019t one of them.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought.<\/p>\n

Click through for this historic piece, because it is well worth the read.  In addition, it validates my long held position that much of the hate based strategy that has become Republican SOP goes back to Nixon rather than Reagan.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"11Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

He still can be.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s another slow news day, as the media play \u201che said, she said\u201d over last weeks gaffes.   However I did find a couple interesting items.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow I\u2019ll be doing volunteer work in prison, so it\u2019s probable that I\u2019ll post only an open thread. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:04 (average […]<\/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-8017","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\/8017","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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}