{"id":8377,"date":"2012-07-16T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2012-07-16T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T14:18:05","slug":"open-thread7162012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/open-thread7162012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/16\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the weather was cool enough that I slept most of the day.&#160; The building finally bled off enough heat that, in the wee hours last night, my apartment reached the 70\u00b0s again for the first time in ten days.&#160; I have a routine appointment with my doctor to follow up on the bad shoulder, and on the way back, I have to stop at the supermarket for staples, so this article is all for today.&#160; I\u2019m still not current with replies, but will catch up ASAP.&#160; Tomorrow I have physical therapy, so we\u2019ll see what the day brings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:09 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-16-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\/breaking-obama-doubles-down-releases-scathing-new-ad-on-romneys-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>BREAKING: Obama Doubles Down, Releases Scathing New Ad On Romney&#8217;s Record<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ud3mMj0AZZk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">His policies are even more off key than he is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/16\/opinion\/sheriff-joe-on-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Five years after he started \u201ccrime suppression\u201d sweeps that terrorized Latino neighborhoods across Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is finally having to explain himself. Not to TV crews in Phoenix or to fawning hosts on Fox News, but before a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>The trial in Melendres v. Arpaio, a class-action civil-rights lawsuit, is scheduled to begin Thursday in Federal District Court in Phoenix. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, accuse the sheriff of waging an all-out, unlawful campaign of discrimination and harassment against Latinos and those who look like them. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That should be a slam dunk. Crazy Joe was obeying the Brewerstan Death Angel, Jan Brewer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Capital Column: <\/font>Texas Congressman Ron Paul has failed to win a majority of delegates in Nebraska, ending his chance of being considered eligible for nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this August.<\/p>\n<p>According to Republican National Committee rules, the libertarian GOP presidential candidate needed a plurality of delegates in five states to ensure himself an official presence and speaking slot at the convention. He already had four \u2013 in Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, and Minnesota \u2013 and Nebraska was his last opportunity to get the fifth.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On one hand, good riddance to bad rubbish, as that racist misanthrope bites the dust.&#160; On the other hand, seeing him interfere with the Bankster\u2019s pig party may have been most entertaining.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"16Cartoon\" alt=\"16Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/16Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the weather was cool enough that I slept most of the day.&#160; The building finally bled off enough heat that, in the wee hours last night, my apartment reached the 70\u00b0s again for the first time in ten days.&#160; I have a routine appointment with my doctor to follow up on the bad shoulder, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/open-thread7162012\/' 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-8377","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\/8377","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=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}