{"id":8075,"date":"2012-06-18T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2012-06-18T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:48:10","slug":"open-thread6182012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/open-thread6182012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/18\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was supposed to be cooler, but about an hour before my month\u2019s groceries arrived, the sun hit the breezeway outside my windows.&#160; Even though the high outside was 70\u00b0, the temperature in the breezeway jumped to 108\u00b0, and inside, to 96\u00b0.&#160; That made unpacking and putting away all those groceries a miserable task.&#160; So I\u2019m, pretty wrung out today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have to go to physical therapy on my shoulder, so my articles may be few and late.<\/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 5:18).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-06-18-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\/why-rachel-maddow-thinks-small-government-makes-a-great-bumper-sticker\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Why Rachel Maddow Thinks &#8216;Small Government&#8217; Makes A Great Bumper Sticker<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"18rachelmaddow\" border=\"0\" alt=\"18rachelmaddow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/18rachelmaddow.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&quot;<strong>Too Informed to Vote Republican<\/strong>&quot; says it all!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iig8Ted5NC4&amp;feature=g-user-u\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>2012: Who Should You Vote For? <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iig8Ted5NC4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Few people on the left are more critical of Barack Obama than Cenk Uygur. Nevertheless, even he knows that as attractive as Rocky Anderson is, a vote for him is an investment in Willard Romney.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/06\/obama-heckler-a-foreigner-himself.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Your Magazine<\/a>: <\/font>Neil Munro, the Daily Caller reporter who interrupted <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/06\/obama-screw-congress-im-dream-acting-myself.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s DREAM Act Lite speech yesterday<\/a> by yelling, &quot;Why do you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-06-15\/obama-confronts-questioner-asking-why-he-favors-foreign-workers.html\" target=\"_blank\">favor foreigners<\/a> over American workers?&quot; is himself a so-called foreigner working a job, here in America. This isn&#8217;t breaking news: He identifies as Irish-born <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/neilmunrodc\" target=\"_blank\">on his Twitter bio<\/a>, and he is currently living in D.C. on a green card. It is, however, somewhat notable and ironic when you consider the agenda behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/neil-munro-irish-white-house-rose-garden-barack-obama-489345-Jun2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">what he maintains<\/a> was &quot;a conventional, obvious question.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I guess that the Republican Party doesn&#8217;t consider Munro a foreigner, because he has the right skin color.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"18Cartoon\" alt=\"18Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/18Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was supposed to be cooler, but about an hour before my month\u2019s groceries arrived, the sun hit the breezeway outside my windows.&#160; Even though the high outside was 70\u00b0, the temperature in the breezeway jumped to 108\u00b0, and inside, to 96\u00b0.&#160; That made unpacking and putting away all those groceries a miserable task.&#160; So <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/open-thread6182012\/' 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-8075","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\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}