{"id":8601,"date":"2012-08-14T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:14:12","slug":"open-thread8142012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/open-thread8142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/14\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is a volunteer day in prison, working with a small group of prisoners doing CoDA.  I have this and one other article, but I\u2019ll have no time to distribute links.  I caught up on comments yesterday afternoon, and will again before I leave, if I can.  When I return, my apartment will be super heated, after being closed up all day, so I\u2019m likely to be too exhausted to do much tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Todays took me 3:55 (average 4:30).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Here’s A Handy List To Keep Track Of The Current Romney Scandals<\/p>\n

\"14romneycloset\"<\/p>\n

Isn’t the reason Willard is trying to hide all these things obvious by now?<\/font><\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>: <\/font>People don’t generally care what politicians read. But Rep. Paul Ryan is different. His fascination with the Russian-born novelist Ayn Rand could spell trouble for the GOP’s new vice-presidential candidate. It could put him at odds with the Christian right and the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

It all depends how much you believe that he is in the thrall of Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n

Rand (1905-1982) is controversial because of the extremism of her views. In researching my recent book<\/a>, I found that Rand’s influence on the Republican Party, which dates back as far as her endorsement of Wendell Willkie in 1940, has been sharply growing, largely due to her vise-like hold on the imagination of the tea party and people like Ryan.<\/p>\n

If Willard and Ratso win, Atlas will not shrug.  He\u2019ll crap his pants.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>: The GOP vs The Big Three<\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

I dealt with their lie yesterday, but Ed did it better.  We all love and support Bernie, because he is always spot-on. Bernie supports Obama\/Biden, not some pie in the sky choice that wastes votes and helps Republicans. That\u2019s spot-on too!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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\u2026or should I have said haters?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is a volunteer day in prison, working with a small group of prisoners doing CoDA.  I have this and one other article, but I\u2019ll have no time to distribute links.  I caught up on comments yesterday afternoon, and will again before I leave, if I can.  When I return, my apartment will be super […]<\/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-8601","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\/8601","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=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}