{"id":8695,"date":"2012-08-28T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2012-08-28T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:56:31","slug":"open-thread8282012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/open-thread8282012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/28\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday cutting the cyst from my foot was routine.&#160; There is little enough pain that I decline anesthetic.&#160; Hours of pins and needles would be far more annoying.&#160; I received a call from my cardiologist yesterday, and I passed my echocardiogram and nuclear stress test.&#160; Good news is always welcome.&#160; Today is a prison volunteer day, and that gives me an ideal location for the Republican festivities in Tampa: far from a TV.&#160; I have this and one other article, but doubt that I can distribute links today.&#160; I am still not current with replies, but will catch up before I leave, if I can.&#160;&#160; Tomorrow is uncertain, because I will miss sleep today and return home late tonight.&#160; What I do depends on how I feel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:02 (average 5:14).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-28-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\/30-seconds-after-you-click-this-youll-know-the-truth-about-mitt-romney-and-paul-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>30 Seconds After You Click This, You&#8217;ll Know The Truth About Mitt Romney And Paul Ryan<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RXfy1aA9oKI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is not news, but too many do not know it yet!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-08-28\/ann-romney-takes-biggest-stage-yet-to-humanize-husband\" target=\"_blank\">Business Week<\/a>: <\/font>That maternal presence &#8212; and her experience with raising five sons &#8212; has helped her connect with average voters in a way that comes less naturally for her husband, Mitt Romney. <\/p>\n<p>Her challenge today at the Republican National Convention in Tampa &#8212; her biggest stage yet &#8212; will be to humanize her husband for Americans who haven\u2019t so far found him very likable. She needs to show that he\u2019s more than a former private equity executive good with numbers, and that he cares about their needs. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She faces an impossible task to make that lie credible.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1UV1fs8lAbg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>I HAVE A DREAM&#8230; MARTIN LUTHER KING &#8211; August 28 1963 <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1UV1fs8lAbg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">49 years ago, this holds historic memories for the nation and for me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"28Cartoon\" alt=\"28Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/28Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday cutting the cyst from my foot was routine.&#160; There is little enough pain that I decline anesthetic.&#160; Hours of pins and needles would be far more annoying.&#160; I received a call from my cardiologist yesterday, and I passed my echocardiogram and nuclear stress test.&#160; Good news is always welcome.&#160; Today is a prison volunteer <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/open-thread8282012\/' 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-8695","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\/8695","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=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}