{"id":8242,"date":"2012-07-03T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:30:14","slug":"open-thread732012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/open-thread732012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/3\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m headed out to physical therapy today and have several errands to run while I\u2019m out.  I will not have time to distribute links to today\u2019s articles until tomorrow.  I am not current with replies and plan to catch up by tomorrow.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:29 (average 5:08).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Power To Fight The Koch Brothers Is Sitting Next To Your Toilet<\/p>\n

\"3koch\"<\/p>\n

Thou shalt not be a Koch sucker!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney\u2019s presidential campaign threw cold water on a central Republican attack line on Monday, saying that President Obama\u2019s health care mandate should be thought of as a penalty and not a tax. <\/p>\n

That message, delivered first by a top aide to Mr. Romney on television and later by the campaign, contradicts top Republican Party officials and leaders in Congress, who have spent the last several days eagerly accusing the president of levying a new tax. <\/p>\n

Isn’t it nice when the circular firing squad isn’t Democratic, for once?<\/font><\/p>\n

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>Just in time for the summer, the ALCU in New Jersey is offering a free app<\/a> that allows citizens to secretly record and store their encounters with police, The (Newark) Star-Ledger reports.<\/p>\n

It follows the release in June of the ACLU New York’s<\/a> "Stop and Frisk" app, which is available in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n

What an excellent idea!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"3Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

Red states, get over it!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m headed out to physical therapy today and have several errands to run while I\u2019m out.  I will not have time to distribute links to today\u2019s articles until tomorrow.  I am not current with replies and plan to catch up by tomorrow.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:29 (average 5:08).  To […]<\/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-8242","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\/8242","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=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}