{"id":8788,"date":"2012-09-07T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:34:32","slug":"open-thread972012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/open-thread972012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/7\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat here continues and is forecast to last an extra day, ending on Sunday.&#160; The temperature in my apartment dropped below 90\u00b0 slightly after 6:00 AM.&#160; The DNC is dominating the news cycle, so my coverage of it is today\u2019s only other article.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies. 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 3:37 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-07-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\/what-all-women-and-the-men-who-love-them-need-to-know-before-november\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What All Women (And The Men Who Love Them) Need To Know Before November<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ejYoV_UzGFk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We cannot repeat often enough that a woman, who votes Republican, is voting for her own oppression.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/06\/obama-convention-video_n_1863222.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President&#8217;s Accomplishments Highlighted Ahead Of DNC Speech<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><object width='560' height='345' id='FiveminPlayer' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.5min.com\/517472181\/\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><embed name=\"FiveminPlayer\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.5min.com\/517472181\/\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" wmode=\"opaque\"><\/embed><\/object>    <\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Finally the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party are publicizing Obama&#8217;s accomplishments. This should have started over three years ago.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2012\/09\/clinton-regrets-reading-short-version-of-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Former President Bill Clinton apologized last night for reading what he called \u201ca severely abbreviated\u201d version of his Convention speech, saying that he had planned to read a \u201cvery educational and interesting\u201d nine-hour version but lost his nerve.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! We missed it!! \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7Cartoon\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/7Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat here continues and is forecast to last an extra day, ending on Sunday.&#160; The temperature in my apartment dropped below 90\u00b0 slightly after 6:00 AM.&#160; The DNC is dominating the news cycle, so my coverage of it is today\u2019s only other article.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies. Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/open-thread972012\/' 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-8788","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\/8788","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=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}