{"id":8725,"date":"2012-09-01T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2012-09-01T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:32:23","slug":"open-thread912012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/open-thread912012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/1\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We have made it through another month, and I\u2019m a bit behind schedule, because of data collection for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report.&#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 4:05 (4:51 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-01-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-tax-calculator-for-anyone-opposed-to-putting-their-cash-through-a-shredder\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Tax Calculator For Anyone Opposed To Putting Their Cash Through A Shredder<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6hPn0-GhFSY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">At their lie fest, Republicans clamed that Obama raised taxes on the middle class. That is not true. This is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2012\/08\/poll-romney-trails-empty-chair.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a development that the Republican campaign is sure to find troubling, a new poll of likely voters showed nominee Mitt Romney trailing badly behind the empty chair Clint Eastwood talked to onstage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>When asked the question, \u201cWho cares more about people like me?\u201d thirty-seven per cent of voters responded, \u201cMitt Romney,\u201d while fifty-two per cent said, \u201cChair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The chair certainly has my vote!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/08\/cnn-republican-convention-black-camerawoman.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said \u201cThis is how we feed animals\u201d before being removed from the convention, a network official confirmed to TPM.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How very Republican that is!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"1Cartoon\" alt=\"1Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And the 1% cleaned up!&#160; Some kept doing business with the Nazis even after the US entered the war.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have made it through another month, and I\u2019m a bit behind schedule, because of data collection for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:05 (4:51 average).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: The Tax Calculator For Anyone <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/open-thread912012\/' 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-8725","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\/8725","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=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}