{"id":8863,"date":"2012-09-17T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2012-09-17T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:34:08","slug":"open-thread9172012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/open-thread9172012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/17\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I finished blogging late and meditated upon the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I\u2019ll be leaving for an ultrasound on my bad leg shortly.&#160; I am not current with replies, and doubt that I can catch up before tomorrow.&#160; This is forecast to be the hottest day of the current (and hopefully final) heat wave, and I expect temperatures in my closed-up apartment to be near 100\u00b0, when I return.&#160; Tomorrow appears hot, but routine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 6:14 (average 6:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-17-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?&#160; I stunk!!<\/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\/bernie-sanders-slays-the-gop-debt-monster-with-5-minutes-of-pure-common-sense\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Bernie Sanders Slays The GOP &#8221;Debt&#8221; Monster With 5 Minutes Of Pure Common Sense<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KYPvaC831xY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Willard and the 1% have $32 trillion rat holed in offshore tax shelters. That is the money that Republicans promised would trickle down. So Bernie is spot on. Balance the budget on the plutocratic beneficiaries of Supply-side wealth theft: Offshore Willard and his 1% cronies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/soledad-obrien-challenges-rep-peter-king-over-his-criticism-of-obama-apology-tour-what-apologies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>: <\/font>\u201cEveryone keeps talking about this \u2018apology tour\u2019 and \u2018apologies\u2019 from the President,\u201d said O\u2019Brien. \u201cAnd I\u2019m trying to find the words \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I apologize\u2019 in any of those speeches \u2014 which I have the text of all those speeches in front of me. None of those speeches at all. And if you go to factcheck.org, which we check in a lot, they all say the same thing. They fact check this.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care what Fact Check says,\u201d said King [Peter King (R-NY)].<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"421\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?content=G4S9QY13544Z08KP&amp;content_type=content_item&amp;layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;widget_type_cid=svp&amp;read_more=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Peter King is committing sedition and is not concerned with facts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/17\/elizabeth-warren-scott-brown_n_1889660.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The polling bump produced by the Democratic National Convention appears to have helped more than just President Barack Obama, as two new polls in Massachusetts also show a parallel rise in the standings of Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<p>The two new polls, both released on Sunday, show Warren with slim leads over Republican Senator Scott Brown. The first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wne.edu\/assets\/112\/wne_polling_-_ma_senate_tables_%28sept_2012%29_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">conducted by Western New England University&#8217;s Polling Institute<\/a> (WNEU) in partnership with the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/09\/wne_poll_reveals_how_voters_vi_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">MassLive.com<\/a>, shows Warren leading by 6 percentage points (50 percent to 44 percent). A previous WNEU poll fielded in June had shown Warren with a narrower 2-point edge over Brown (45 percent to 43 percent).<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is wonderful news!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"17Cartoon\" alt=\"17Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/17Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finished blogging late and meditated upon the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I\u2019ll be leaving for an ultrasound on my bad leg shortly.&#160; I am not current with replies, and doubt that I can catch up before tomorrow.&#160; This is forecast to be the hottest day of the current (and hopefully final) heat wave, and I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/open-thread9172012\/' 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-8863","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\/8863","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=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}