{"id":8468,"date":"2012-07-25T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2012-07-25T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:48:23","slug":"open-thread7252012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/open-thread7252012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/25\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I did manage to post articles and distribute the links before leaving for prison for the CoDA group there with ten prisoners.&#160; My guys, as always, were magnificent, and I cannot praise them enough for their honesty, insight, and commitment.&#160; I talked about how we need to take of ourselves and how supportive you are that I am blogging less to be there for them, without running myself into the ground.&#160; The blog and that group have one thing in common.&#160; There is a <em>Critter<\/em> in both places. Critter there says HI to Critter here.&#160; When I returned home at around 9:30 PM, my apartment had been closed up through the heat of the day and I was met by 98\u00b0.&#160; ARGH!&#160; It took long enough to cool it down that I slept poorly.&#160; I have one other article today, but I will be unable to distribute links.&#160; I have to go out and run errands before it gets too hot, and I also need to sleep.&#160; I an not current with replies, but I will catch up when I can.&#160; Tomorrow I\u2019ll be back in prison for a meeting with around 100 guys.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday\u2019s took me 4:31 (average 4:58).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-25-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\/what-3-things-do-you-need-to-change-the-world?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What 3 Things Do You Need To Change The World?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIQdYXCKUv0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My role in this is as a writer, informer and prison volunteer. What\u2019s yours? For more info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of Stuff<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/truth-team\/entry\/stephanie-cutter-president-obamas-fight-for-small-businesses\" target=\"_blank\">The Truth Team<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney\u2019s latest TV ad deliberately manipulates President Obama\u2019s words to create a false attack on his support for American entrepreneurs. Watch Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter compare what the two candidates would actually do for small businesses, and then share the facts with anyone who needs to know the truth about the President\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSaJpEa_BCA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is a critical difference between Obama&#8217;s and Romney&#8217;s ads. Obama&#8217;s are true.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/hauteamericana.com\/2012\/07\/could-american-olympians-be-decked-out-in-american-made-uniforms-for-less-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haute America<\/a>: <\/font>To prove that the U.S. could have produced the Opening Ceremony separates for less than Ralph Lauren manufactured them in China, I decided to examine the American-made alternatives currently available. The following articles of clothing are all manufactured in the U.S. and serve as a reminder, that in fact, our Olympians could be wearing less expensive American-made apparel than the Chinese-made goods they\u2019ll be sporting in 10 days.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m a huge fan of Olympic Sports, but I plan to boycott the Opening Ceremony in protest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"25Cartoon\" alt=\"25Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/25Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did manage to post articles and distribute the links before leaving for prison for the CoDA group there with ten prisoners.&#160; My guys, as always, were magnificent, and I cannot praise them enough for their honesty, insight, and commitment.&#160; I talked about how we need to take of ourselves and how supportive you <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/open-thread7252012\/' 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-8468","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\/8468","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=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}