{"id":8560,"date":"2012-08-08T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:18:02","slug":"open-thread882012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/open-thread882012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/8\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the last cooler day, before the heat returns.  I’m still very tired.  This will be today’s only article, because I have to take the stone to the urologist.  I’m not current with replies, but will catch up when I can.  Tomorrow my blogging will be limited, because I have a Cardiologist appointment.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Sunday’s took me 3:59 (average 4:31).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  Monday’s took me 3:50 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  Yesterday’s took me 3:49 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  Today’s took me 4:54 (average 5:43).  To do it click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font> (Thanks Jerry)<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Bernie Sanders On How The Supreme Court Sold American Democracy To The Highest Bidder<\/p>\n

\"8Bernie\"<\/p>\n

Can we survive more Republican appointees to the Supreme Court?<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney accused President Obama on Tuesday of gutting one of the signature bipartisan accomplishments of the recent political era: the overhaul of welfare policy.<\/p>\n

Mr. Romney, taking up criticism that has gripped conservatives for the last few weeks, attacked a directive by the Obama administration that Republicans say does an end run around the welfare law, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, that is widely credited with reducing government dependency.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in a long string of Republican lies. Obama's directive does not take out the work requirement at all. It allows governors to request waivers to provide flexibility to streamline their welfare systems to put more people to work. 29 Republican governors have requested these waivers over the last few years. One of them was Willard "Etch Everyone's Sketch" Rmoney, who never met a lie he wouldn't tell.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Chicago Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>Wheaton College has joined more than 50 mostly Roman Catholic religious institutions suing the Obama administration for requiring religious employers to offer health insurance that covers the cost of contraception, including the morning-after pill, for employees and students.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the west suburban college joined a lawsuit filed by Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., making it one of a handful of evangelical Protestant institutions opposed to the requirement that employers provide insurance plans that include contraception for women at no cost.<\/p>\n

In order to join the lawsuit, Wheaton had to cancel their heath insurance first. Why? The coverage they have offered their employees for years included the cost of contraception, including the morning after pill. If they could not offer such coverage without it infringing on their religious liberty, how had they managed to do do for the years before it became a goose-stepping meme for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians?  Hypocrites!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"8Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

Except for Ford, Nixon had more integrity than any other Republican president since.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the last cooler day, before the heat returns.  I’m still very tired.  This will be today’s only article, because I have to take the stone to the urologist.  I’m not current with replies, but will catch up when I can.  Tomorrow my blogging will be limited, because I have a Cardiologist appointment. Jig […]<\/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-8560","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\/8560","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=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}