{"id":8447,"date":"2012-07-23T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2012-07-23T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:40:03","slug":"open-thread7232012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/open-thread7232012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/23\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I fell way behind schedule.&#160; After I had written my articles, but before I posted them, I had a severe belly ache that really slowed me down.&#160; Several hours later, it just went away.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; I will be doing volunteer work in prison both tomorrow and Thursday, so whatever blogging I can do is completely up in the air until Saturday.&#160; Please don\u2019t worry.<\/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 5:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-23-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\/old-dudes-talking-about-sluts-and-honest-rapes-have-our-best-interest-at-heart-said-no-one-ever-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>&#8221;Old Dudes Talking About &#8216;Sluts&#8217; And &#8216;Honest Rapes&#8217; Have Our Best Interest At Heart.&#8221; Said No One Ever<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gyKhZrjFrU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican war on women is also a war against real men, the ones who truly love and respect them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/news\/2012\/07\/11660\/wi-gop-legislators-call-voter-purge-fewer-voter-registrations\" target=\"_blank\">PR Watch<\/a>: <\/font>Even after courts and law enforcement officials have declared that voter fraud is nonexistent in Wisconsin, Republican legislators continue perpetuating unfounded allegations of fraud, this time to call for purging the voter rolls. Meanwhile, another GOP legislator is claiming that promoting lawful registration is a blow to freedom &#8212; at least when it involves registering Democratic constituencies.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican War on Voting Rights continues unabated, especially in Fitzwalkerstan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=isl8b7IH2TE&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Hat-Tip Sarahlee): <\/font>OBAMA APOLOGIZES TO ROMNEY <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/isl8b7IH2TE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You Go Girl!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: something sweet, for a change<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"23Cartoon\" alt=\"23Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/23Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I fell way behind schedule.&#160; After I had written my articles, but before I posted them, I had a severe belly ache that really slowed me down.&#160; Several hours later, it just went away.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; I will be doing volunteer work in prison both tomorrow and Thursday, so whatever blogging I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/open-thread7232012\/' 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-8447","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\/8447","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=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}