{"id":8692,"date":"2012-08-27T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2012-08-27T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:46:10","slug":"open-thread8272012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/open-thread8272012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/27\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I rested and attended the First Church of the Ellipsoid Orb on TV, meditating on the meeting between My Broncos and the 49ers.&#160; The Broncos lost the preseason game, because they took their starters out in the 1st quarter, when they were leading 17-0, and the 49ers kept their starters in most of the game.&#160; This is today\u2019s only article, because I\u2019m going to have the podiatrist dig the cyst out of my foot.&#160; No worries.&#160; It\u2019s a quarterly event.&#160; I am not current with replies, but will catch up ASAP.&#160; Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, but I may be able to put up an article or two before I leave.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:45 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-27-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\/this-video-might-stop-romney-from-becoming-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>This Video MIGHT Stop Romney From Becoming President<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a0ccPh3YYH4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This covered all the bases of the Republican scheme to take the White House.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/27\/making-the-election-about-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican ticket is flooding the airwaves with commercials that develop two themes designed to turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This goes right along with the birther meme from the top of the ticket.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/08\/27\/us-usa-politics-sanford-idUSBRE87P0DI20120827\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said on Sunday he is engaged to marry his Argentine girlfriend, Maria Belen Chapur.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Remember him? He&#8217;s walking the Appalachian trail for life, or at least for now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"27Cartoon\" alt=\"27Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/27Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I rested and attended the First Church of the Ellipsoid Orb on TV, meditating on the meeting between My Broncos and the 49ers.&#160; The Broncos lost the preseason game, because they took their starters out in the 1st quarter, when they were leading 17-0, and the 49ers kept their starters in most of the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/open-thread8272012\/' 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-8692","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\/8692","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=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}