{"id":8028,"date":"2012-06-12T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:27:30","slug":"open-thread6122012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/open-thread6122012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–6\/12\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I allowed myself a couple extra hours sleep this morning, because I need all the sleep I can get for my volunteer work in prison, a meeting and a CoDA group.  I\u2019m current with replies.  What I do tomorrow will depend on how much today poops me out.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:58 (average 5:18).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Nine Words Sum Up America’s Corporate Welfare Queens<\/p>\n

\"12Captialism\"<\/p>\n

Just in case you don’t understand, this means that the beneficiaries of Republican corporate welfare get to keep their profits, but we have to pay for their losses.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>\u201cVoucher\u201d is a fighting word in education, so it may be understandable that when Mitt Romney speaks about improving the nation\u2019s schools, he never uses that term.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, as president, Mr. Romney would seek to overhaul the federal government\u2019s largest programs for kindergarten through 12th grade into a voucherlike system. Students would be free to use $25 billion in federal money to attend any school they choose \u2014 public, charter, online or private \u2014 a system, he said, that would introduce marketplace dynamics into education to drive academic gains. <\/p>\n

That lie will fertilize your veggies. Poor people will help pay for rich kids to attend exclusive private schools, which poor kids will not be able to attend, as they can not afford the extra tuition. In addition, sane people have to pay for schools that specialize in Republican supply-side pseudo-Christian brainwashing in violation of the Separation Clause<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font>No Room for Reagan or GHW Bush in today’s GOP<\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

As much as the notion of another Bush in the White House fills me with horror, I must give credit where credit is due. Jeb Bush’s evaluation is both honest and correct. Pope Grover I, on the other hand, has his head so far up his arse that he see his own tonsils.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"12Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

For Rmoney, people = 1%<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I allowed myself a couple extra hours sleep this morning, because I need all the sleep I can get for my volunteer work in prison, a meeting and a CoDA group.  I\u2019m current with replies.  What I do tomorrow will depend on how much today poops me out. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:58 […]<\/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-8028","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\/8028","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=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}