{"id":8398,"date":"2012-07-18T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2012-07-18T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:07:28","slug":"open-thread7182012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/open-thread7182012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/18\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was another hot one, but I managed to catch up.&#160; Today I have my appointment for physical therapy, so I\u2019ll put up this and one more.&#160; I\u2019ll distribute the links to them tomorrow.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:17 (average 4:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-18-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\/the-smirk-that-made-mitt-romney-the-most-distrusted-candidate-of-the-last-50-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Smirk That Made Mitt Romney The Most Distrusted Candidate Of The Last 50 Years.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLBgCIsMkwU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After John McCain saw Willard&#8217;s returns, he choose Drill Baby Dingbat over Willard for VP. So desperate an act on McCain\u2019s part implies an extreme motivation.&#160; He says it\u2019s because Palin is the best candidate.&#160; LOL!&#160; Maybe she is better than Willard, but I think John is feeding us a McConJob.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/18\/us\/politics\/senate-democrats-propose-letting-all-tax-cuts-expire.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Democrats \u2014 holding firm against extending tax cuts for the rich \u2014 are proposing a novel way to circumvent the Republican pledge not to vote for any tax increase: Allow all the tax cuts to expire Jan. 1, then vote on a tax cut for the middle class shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal illustrates the lengths lawmakers are going to in an effort to include new federal revenues in a fix for the \u201cfiscal cliff,\u201d the reckoning in January that would come when all Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts to military and domestic programs kick in. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican tax giveaway to the rich must not be allowed to continue.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/07\/16\/1110413\/-Busted-Now-We-Get-It-CNN-Top-Political-Analyst-was-on-Bain-Payroll\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Busted: Now We Get It; CNN Top Political Analyst was on Bain Payroll!!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That wasn&#8217;t the first time Republicans bought the media, and it won&#8217;t be the last. That&#8217;s why our voices are so very important.<\/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\/07\/18Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another hot one, but I managed to catch up.&#160; Today I have my appointment for physical therapy, so I\u2019ll put up this and one more.&#160; I\u2019ll distribute the links to them tomorrow.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:17 (average 4:16).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/open-thread7182012\/' 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-8398","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\/8398","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=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}