{"id":8320,"date":"2012-07-10T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2012-07-10T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:30:50","slug":"open-thread7102012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/open-thread7102012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/10\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019ll manage to cobble together this and another article before leaving to physical rehab today.&#160; I won\u2019t have time to distribute the links until tomorrow.&#160; Yesterday was not quite as hot, and in the middle of the night, my apartment finally dropped back into the 70\u00b0s for the first time in three days.&#160; Today will also be a bit milder, before it shoots up again tomorrow.&#160; If I have not caught up on replies, when I post this, I will by tomorrow, which appears routine, but will be hot.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:39 (average 4:22).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-10-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\/shut-up-and-do-my-nails-99-what-mitt-romneys-wealthy-supporters-really-think-of-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>SHUT UP AND DO MY NAILS, 99%: What Mitt Romney&#8217;s Wealthy Supporters Really Think Of Us<\/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=\"10nails-golly\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10nails-golly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/10nails-golly.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a surprise! Rmoney&#8217;s big backers are just like him!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/07\/09\/court-orders-anti-lgbt-preacher-to-pay-maddows-legal-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>A Washington, D.C. judge has ordered an anti-LGBT preacher to pay MSNBC host Rachel Maddow\u2019s attorney\u2019s fees after he filed a $50 million lawsuit for allegedly defaming him.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the blog Bradlee Dean Info <a href=\"http:\/\/bradleedeaninfo.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/court-ordered-bradlee-dean-to-pay.html\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> that Dean and his You Can Run International ministry had 30 days to pay $24,625.23. <\/p>\n<p>Dean had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/rachel-maddow-msnbc-sued-50-216090\" target=\"_blank\">sued<\/a> Maddow last year after she aired a segment from his radio show where he said that Muslims were \u201cmore moral than even the American Christians\u201d because they were \u201ccalling for the execution for homosexuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The radio host claimed that Maddow\u2019s report was an attempt to undermine the presidential ambition\u2019s of his personal friend, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL!!&#160; Love it! Maybe his buddy, Batshit B, will pay for her pet Republican hatemonger.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kochblocked.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">kockblocked.com<\/a>: For your viewing pleasure!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MbykzqJ6ens?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is that wonderful or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"10Cartoon\" alt=\"10Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/10Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll manage to cobble together this and another article before leaving to physical rehab today.&#160; I won\u2019t have time to distribute the links until tomorrow.&#160; Yesterday was not quite as hot, and in the middle of the night, my apartment finally dropped back into the 70\u00b0s for the first time in three days.&#160; Today will <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/open-thread7102012\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320","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=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}