{"id":8829,"date":"2012-09-13T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2012-09-13T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:22:37","slug":"open-thread9132012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/open-thread9132012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/13\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the returning heat set off my COPD, and I was unable to sleep last night.&#160; Therefore this is my only article for the day.&#160; I am behind on replies and will catch up when I can.&#160; Tomorrow I have a very early follow up appointment with my Cardiologist, so if I even post an Open Thread, it will be late.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:46 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-13-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-graphic-every-obama-blaming-conservative-needs-to-see\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Graphic Every Obama-Blaming Conservative Needs To See<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"13mess\" alt=\"13mess\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/13mess.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Shhh! We&#8217;re not supposed to know that!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/13\/world\/middleeast\/origins-of-provocative-video-shrouded.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The history of the film \u2014 who financed it; how it was made; and perhaps most important, how it was translated into Arabic and posted on YouTube to Muslim viewers \u2014 was shrouded Wednesday in tales of a secret Hollywood screening; a director who may or may not exist, and used a false name if he did; and actors who appeared, thanks to computer technology, to be traipsing through Middle Eastern cities. One of its main producers, Steve Klein, a Vietnam veteran whose son was severely wounded in Iraq, is notorious across California for his involvement with anti-Muslim actions, from the courts to schoolyards to <strong>a weekly show broadcast on Christian radio<\/strong> in the Middle East. [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It appears that Republican Supply-side Jesus was blaming a fictitious Jew for an atrocity by Supply-side pseudo-Christian hatemongers.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3096434\/#49012565\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: Maddow&#8217;s Hypothesis<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc542a48\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49012565^0^540941&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc542a48\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=49012565^0^540941&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The notion that the attack was Al Qaeda terrorism, pre-planned for that date and that location is, in my opinion, the most plausible suggestion I have heard. 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