{"id":8747,"date":"2012-09-03T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2012-09-03T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:05:35","slug":"open-thread932012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/open-thread932012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/3\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that summer is virtually over, I\u2019m heading into four days of heat, but the nights should be cool enough to help mitigate it.  I hope you are all enjoying your holiday.  I\u2019m current with replies, and tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:19 (average 4:14).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Graphic For Anyone Who Thinks Paul Ryan Couldn’t Get Any Worse<\/p>\n

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It would be difficult to find any member of Congress his age, who has voted FOR more debt than this so-called budget hawk.  Now he and his party want to take what you paid have already paid for.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Hugh Hewitt, a right-wing talk-radio host, interviewed Mr. Ryan. In that interview, the vice-presidential candidate boasted about his fitness, declaring that he had once run a marathon in less than three hours. <\/p>\n

This claim piqued the interest of Runner\u2019s World magazine, which noted that marathon times are recorded \u2014 and that it was unable to find any evidence of Mr. Ryan\u2019s accomplishment. It eventually transpired that Mr. Ryan had indeed once run a marathon, but that his time was actually more than four hours. <\/p>\n

In a statement issued by a spokesman, Mr. Ryan tried to laugh the whole thing off as a simple error. But serious runners find that implausible: the difference between sub-three and over-four is the difference between extraordinary and perfectly ordinary, and it\u2019s not something a runner could get wrong, unless he\u2019s a fabulist who imagines his own reality. And does suggesting that Mr. Ryan is delusional rather than dishonest actually make the situation any better? <\/p>\n

It’s simple. If Ryan is lying, vote Obama\/Biden. If Ryan is delusional, vote Obama\/Biden.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Americans scored Mitt Romney\u2019s GOP convention speech the lowest since Bob Dole\u2019s acceptance speech in 1996, according to a Gallup Poll<\/a> released Monday.<\/p>\n

Following the Republican National Convention in Tampa, 40 percent of voters said that they were more likely to support Mitt Romney for president, compared with 38 percent who were less likely \u2014 a net impact of +2.<\/p>\n

This is lowest net impact for a convention going back to 1984. By comparison, the 2008 GOP convention featuring Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was +5, and that year\u2019s Democratic convention nominating Barack Obama was +14.<\/p>\n

An uninspiring reaction to an uninspiring speech by an uninspiring man, or should I say mannequin?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now that summer is virtually over, I\u2019m heading into four days of heat, but the nights should be cool enough to help mitigate it.  I hope you are all enjoying your holiday.  I\u2019m current with replies, and tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:19 (average 4:14).  To do it, click here.  How […]<\/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-8747","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\/8747","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=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}