{"id":8494,"date":"2012-07-30T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8494"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:36:18","slug":"open-thread7302012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/open-thread7302012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/30\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m still a bit woozy from medications and am still in some pain, but nothing major.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have an appointment with a Urologist, so what I can get done blogging remains uncertain.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">s took me 3:46 (average 5:02).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-07-30-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\/ann-romney-weve-given-all-you-people-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Ann Romney: &#8216;We&#8217;ve Given All You People Need To Know&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_Z-PWfDKTQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When I posted a cartoon about this, Republicans claimed that she really did not say <em>YOU PEOPLE<\/em>, the 1% term referring to inferiors.&#160; Any questions now?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/30\/education\/harkin-report-condemns-for-profit-colleges.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Wrapping up a two-year investigation of for-profit colleges, Senator Tom Harkin will issue a final report on Monday \u2014 a voluminous, hard-hitting indictment of almost every aspect of the industry, filled with troubling statistics and anecdotes drawn from internal documents of the 30 companies investigated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, which was posted online in advance, taxpayers spent $32 billion in the most recent year on companies that operate for-profit colleges, but the majority of students they enroll leave without a degree, half of those within four months. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We\u2019re not talking about legitimate universities here.&#160; These are the ones you see on late night TV with spiels like \u2018Become a Brain Surgeon or Rocket Scientist, even if you\u2019re so stupid you watch <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.\u2019&#160; I suppose you can guess which party opposes regulating their predation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-07-24\/budget-office-obamas-health-law-reduces-deficit\" target=\"_blank\">Business Week<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul will shrink rather than increase the nation&#8217;s huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress&#8217; nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama&#8217;s contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>About 3 million fewer uninsured people will gain health coverage because of last month&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling granting states more leeway, and that will cut the federal costs by $84 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said in the biggest changes from earlier estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have insisted that &quot;Obamacare&quot; will actually raise deficits \u2014 by &quot;trillions,&quot; according to presidential candidate Mitt Romney. 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