{"id":8675,"date":"2012-08-25T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2012-08-25T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:29:20","slug":"open-thread8252012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/open-thread8252012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/25\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my COPD was severe, and I got very little sleep last night, so I have only two articles today.&#160; I may be late posting and\/or distributing links, because I have a fantasy football draft this morning.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:50 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-25-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\/is-ayn-rand-really-the-person-republicans-want-to-imitate\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Is Ayn Rand Really The Person Republicans Want To Imitate?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7zwO88nRH8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On the surface it seems shocking that a party so fixated on religion would so favor an atheist, but it isn\u2019t really.&#160; Rand\u2019s atheism does not conflict with Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity. They have bastardized authentic Christianity just as severely as Republican Corporate Plutocracy has bastardized authentic capitalism. They have replaced the altruism of Christ with the greed and legalism of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and traded in Jesus&#8217; love for hate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/25\/opinion\/blow-starving-the-future.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world\u2019s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children. <\/p>\n<p>This week, the Center for American Progress and the Center for the Next Generation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/USChinaIndiaEduCompetitiveness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">released a report<\/a> entitled \u201cThe Race That Really Matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese and Indian Investments in the Next Generation Workforce.\u201d The findings were breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not do an article on this piece without taking the whole thing, which raises \u00a9 issues. Click through, please.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/donald-trump-posted-birther-tweet-same-hour-as\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>As he often does, Donald Trump tweeted about his ongoing conspiracy theories regarding President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate on Friday. In an awkward case of bad timing, however, it came <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/romney-jokes-no-one-ever-asked-to-see?ref=fpa\" target=\"_blank\">right as Mitt Romney joked about the issue<\/a>, prompting criticism from the Obama camapign [sic] over Romneys&#8217; refusal to condemn birther supporters.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What TPM suggests was bad timing, I suggest was planned timing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"25Cartoon\" alt=\"25Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/25Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my COPD was severe, and I got very little sleep last night, so I have only two articles today.&#160; I may be late posting and\/or distributing links, because I have a fantasy football draft this morning.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine. 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