{"id":8459,"date":"2012-07-24T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2012-07-24T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:46:48","slug":"open-thread7242012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/open-thread7242012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/24\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have three articles, including this one today, but I don\u2019t know whether there will be time to distribute the links or catch up on replies before leaving for the prison.&#160; Tomorrow, I expect to be pooped.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:29 (average 4:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-24-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\/why-romney-posing-in-colorado-doesnt-help-firefighters-one-damned-bit\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Why Romney Posing In Colorado Doesn&#8217;t Help Firefighters One Damned Bit<\/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=\"24firefighters-romney\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24firefighters-romney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/24firefighters-romney.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Willard said that if we want more free stuff from the government, we should vote for the other guy. That free stuff (that he would cut out) includes firefighters and their gear.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57478464-503544\/back-on-the-trail-romney-and-obama-avoid-gun-control-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>: <\/font>Despite calls to address the gun control issue, neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney brought the issue up as they returned to the campaign trail Monday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Like I said yesterday, neither party will take this on now, but my calendar is noted to start pushing in December.&#160; The further away the next election, the more vulnerable the NRA will be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2012\/07\/13\/2908944\/big-banks-have-new-foe-in-fresno.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee<\/a>: <\/font>A Fresno faith group on Friday urged people to move their money out of five large banks, blaming the corporations for bad home loans, foreclosures and the nation&#8217;s struggling economy.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Faith In Community &#8212; an interdenominational organizing group &#8212; joined with Peace Fresno and Occupy Fresno to call for a divestment of accounts with Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it nice to see authentic faith to contrast with Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"24Cartoon\" alt=\"24Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/24Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have three articles, including this one today, but I don\u2019t know whether there will be time to distribute the links or catch up on replies before leaving for the prison.&#160; Tomorrow, I expect to be pooped. 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