{"id":8809,"date":"2012-09-10T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2012-09-10T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:48:56","slug":"open-thread9102012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/open-thread9102012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/10\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I spent most of the day meditating on the Ellipsoid Orb, and I was blessed.&#160; I have prep work to do today for tomorrow\u2019s meeting, but I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day.&#160; I will probably be able to post before I go, but I\u2019m likely to be wiped out the next day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:56 (average 4:45).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"0909-Broncos31-Steelers19\" alt=\"0909-Broncos31-Steelers19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0909-Broncos31-Steelers19.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"95\" \/><\/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\/4-simply-powerful-words-that-will-inspire-you-to-fight-for-all-women-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>4 Simply Powerful Words That Will Inspire You To Fight For All Women, Everywhere<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45539176\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/45539176\" target=\"_blank\">This Is My Body<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/jasonstefaniak\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Stefaniak<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans believe that they are a pussy posse, and that the dogma of their War on Women supersedes this basic truth, and allows them to impose their own beliefs in violation of the First Amendment.&#160; Vote them wrong!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/10\/romney-raises-111-6-million-in-august\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/245017319275905024\" target=\"_blank\">said on Twitter<\/a> that 98 percent of donations in August were for $250 or less. The Republican effort raised about $34.6 million in donations of less than $250, the campaign said, about a third of the total \u2014 a better showing with small donors than Mr. Romney has had in the past.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And the 99% out-contributed the billionaires in August!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/polls\/248369-the-hill-poll-voters-say-presidential-election-more-a-choice-than-referendum\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>: <\/font>A clear majority \u2013 61 percent \u2013 of likely voters consider the presidential election to be more of a choice between President Obama and Mitt Romney than a referendum on the president\u2019s first term in office, according to a new poll for The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Just over one-third \u2014 34 percent \u2014 of voters said they considered the election to be a judgment on Obama\u2019s job performance in the White House.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s exactly what I want to hear!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"10Cartoon\" alt=\"10Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/10Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent most of the day meditating on the Ellipsoid Orb, and I was blessed.&#160; I have prep work to do today for tomorrow\u2019s meeting, but I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day.&#160; I will probably be able to post before I go, but I\u2019m likely to be wiped out the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/open-thread9102012\/' 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-8809","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\/8809","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=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}