{"id":8534,"date":"2012-08-03T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2012-08-04T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T16:40:44","slug":"open-thread822012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/open-thread822012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/3\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&rsquo;m posting two articles today, but will have no time to distribute links, because I have a physical therapy appointment for my shoulder.&nbsp; I have not replied to comments here, but will, if time permits.&nbsp; Tomorrow appears routine, but we&rsquo;re getting another heat wave.&nbsp; For the next four days my apartment will be well over 100&deg;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 4:08 (average 5:12).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-03-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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\/two-lesbians-went-to-talk-to-mitt-romney-when-he-was-governor-and-this-is-what-he-said\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Two Lesbians Went To Talk To Mitt Romney When He Was Governor And This Is What He Said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77okLyAooCA?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Willard&#39;s response to these women show him for what he is: a bigot without empathy or compassion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/gay-rights-activists-plan-chick-fil-kiss-16919213#.UBvKcvWQNTY\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>: <\/font>Gay rights activists and other supporters of marriage equality planned a national &quot;Kiss In&quot; at Chick-fil-A restaurants Friday to protest the fast-food chain owners&#39; opposition to same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are encouraged to come to the fast-food chains and kiss a fellow demonstrator of the same sex. One organizer, Carly McGehee of Dallas, said she hopes the event helps gay youths &quot;who feel isolated and are victims of bullying.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Drill Baby Dingbat must be furious!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/pro-romney-independent-group-tied-to-billionaire-koch-brothers-readies-tv-ad-campaign\/2012\/08\/02\/gJQAXkEWSX_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>An independent group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says it&rsquo;s launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in several general election battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>People familiar with the plans say Americans for Prosperity plans to spend about $25 million on the ads beginning next week and running into early September. The ads will run in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Americans for Prosperity was founded by David and Charles Koch (kohk), billionaire brothers who have contributed generously to Republican causes and candidates over the years.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We don&#39;t have the money to compete with Koch suckers financially, so we need to win one person at a time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3Cartoon\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/3Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"3Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m posting two articles today, but will have no time to distribute links, because I have a physical therapy appointment for my shoulder.&nbsp; I have not replied to comments here, but will, if time permits.&nbsp; Tomorrow appears routine, but we&rsquo;re getting another heat wave.&nbsp; For the next four days my apartment will be well over <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/open-thread822012-2\/' 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-8534","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\/8534","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=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}