{"id":8621,"date":"2012-08-17T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2012-08-17T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:18:09","slug":"open-thread8172012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/open-thread8172012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/17\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It will not make it below 90\u00b0 at my desk today.&#160; Tomorrow should be slightly cooler.&#160; I had to reschedule my echocardiogram today.&#160; I consider it unsafe to have to walk up a steep hill from the hospital to the bus stop with a bad leg in 100\u00b0+ heat.&#160; This is today\u2019s only article.&#160; I intended it for yesterday but, I ran put of gas after researching and before writing.&#160; I am not current with replies and will catch up when I can.&#160; What happens tomorrow depends on whether I get rain with the forecast thunderstorm.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday\u2019s took me 4:59 (average 6:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Today\u2019s took me 3:47 (average 4:39).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-17-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\/someone-made-this-random-meme-about-immigration-and-its-awesome\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Someone Made This Random Meme About Immigration And It&#8217;s Awesome<\/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=\"17Immigration\" border=\"0\" alt=\"17Immigration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/17Immigration.jpg\" width=\"509\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Does that put Republican hypocri9sy on Front Street, or what?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From YouTube (Hat-Tip Caity J): <\/font>Republican Deficit Hawk Hypocrites<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KYPvaC831xY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have to love Bernie. He has the good sense to support Obama.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/we-havent-run-the-numbers-a-startling-ryan-admi\/189369\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Last night, newly ensconced Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan sat down for his first solo interview with Fox News&#8217; Brit Hume and let slip an admission about Mitt Romney&#8217;s budget plan &#8212; an admission that&#8217;s receiving surprisingly little press attention. Asked by Hume when the Romney plan would balance the budget, Ryan said he didn&#8217;t know because &quot;<strong>we haven&#8217;t run the numbers on that specific plan<\/strong>.&quot; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/static\/clips\/2012\/08\/15\/25986\/fnc-sr-20120814-ryanbudget\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They have run the numbers. 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