{"id":8587,"date":"2012-08-12T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2012-08-12T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:51:37","slug":"open-thread8122012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/open-thread8122012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/12\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have only this and one other article today.&#160; I want to wait and let Romney&#8217;s choice of <strike>Michele Bachman<\/strike> Paul Ryan to sink in for a couple of days, and that has dominated political news.&#160; This heat wave promises to be even worse than the last.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow, it is likely I will post only an Open Thread as I have a doctor appointment.&#160; My GP is the one that moved, and it takes forever to get there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:43 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/the-scariest-gay-marriage-chart-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Scariest Gay Marriage Chart Ever<\/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=\"12gay-marriage\" border=\"0\" alt=\"12gay-marriage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/12gay-marriage.png\" width=\"456\" height=\"656\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!! Would Republican Supply-side Jesus cry, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57491617\/fact-check-questionable-claims-when-mitt-romney-introduces-running-mate\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>: <\/font>In his debut as Mitt Romney&#8217;s running mate, Paul Ryan promised &quot;America&#8217;s comeback team&quot; won&#8217;t duck tough budget issues, although the man standing next to him has kept his head low so far. Romney vowed the duo would &quot;preserve&quot; Medicare, an eye-popping claim considering Ryan wants to transform the program from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">More accurate, he wants to replace Medicare with a coupon, the value of which decreases annually.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/romney\/ryan\/?source=em12_20120811_da_nd&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=obama&amp;utm_campaign=em12_20120811_da_nd\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>: <\/font>Romney and Ryan want to take us back to the failed, top-down economic ideas of the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWyk-Mr6cfc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">America cannot afford Willard&#8217;s choice. America cannot afford Willard.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: good bumper sticker too<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/12Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"12Cartoon\" alt=\"12Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/12Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have only this and one other article today.&#160; I want to wait and let Romney&#8217;s choice of Michele Bachman Paul Ryan to sink in for a couple of days, and that has dominated political news.&#160; This heat wave promises to be even worse than the last.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow, it is likely <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/open-thread8122012\/' 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-8587","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\/8587","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=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}