{"id":8635,"date":"2012-08-19T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2012-08-19T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:56:08","slug":"open-thread8192012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/open-thread8192012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/19\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry, and yesterday I could not sleep due to coughing and leg pain.&#160; I also felt just too tired to sleep, which is very frustrating.&#160; So I\u2019m going to put off distributing links one more day, since I have a grocery delivery coming later this morning, but I have this and one other article today, and I am current with replies.&#160; Lets keep our fingers crossed for tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:12 (average 4:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-19-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\/the-powerful-story-of-what-mitt-romneys-company-did-to-one-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Powerful Story Of What Mitt Romney&#8217;s Company Did To One Family<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nj70XqOxptU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When this ad was first aired, Republicans claimed that the Obama campaign had wrongfully accused Romney of murdering this man&#8217;s wife. That is another Republican lie. The ad says the opposite, claiming Romney was not aware. That is not murder. Romney had no intent to murder her. His only intent was profit.&#160; Romney killed her in the same way you or I kill an ant on the sidewalk. The man&#8217;s wife was not important enough to Romney for him to even know she was there, just like you, me, or 99% of us.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/18\/to-obama-republican-budget-plans-are-snake-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama took on the budget proposals of Mitt Romney and Representative Paul D. Ryan on Saturday, accusing the Republican ticket of seeking to cut trillions of dollars in taxes for the wealthy while raising taxes for the middle class and making deep cuts to programs that would benefit working Americans.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll let Obama comment for me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eEC-_AXF9Hk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/nation\/article\/Obama-Education-data-justify-jobs-plan-3798736.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font>Tight school budgets have meant fewer teachers, larger classes and shorter school years, according to a White House report that President Obama says shows the need for Congress to pass his proposals to help states reduce teacher layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The study concluded that 300,000 education jobs have been lost since the official end of the recession in 2009 and that student-to-teacher ratios have increased by 4.6 percent from 2008 to 2010 and are on track to grow more.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans do not like public education. Learning how to think interferes with goose-stepping.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"19Cartoon\" alt=\"19Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/19Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry, and yesterday I could not sleep due to coughing and leg pain.&#160; I also felt just too tired to sleep, which is very frustrating.&#160; So I\u2019m going to put off distributing links one more day, since I have a grocery delivery coming later this <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/open-thread8192012\/' 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-8635","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\/8635","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=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}