{"id":8909,"date":"2012-09-22T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2012-09-22T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:47:35","slug":"open-thread9222012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/open-thread9222012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/22\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I blogged and rested, and I plan the same for today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; It will also be my last rest day, as Monday I have an all-say appointment, Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday are recovery days.&#160; Color me scarce next week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:28 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-22-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-if-the-country-isnt-really-broke\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What If The Country Isn&#8217;t Really Broke?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G49q6uPcwY8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">All of these subsidies and externalized cost are how wealth is transferred from the poor and middle classes to the 1%.&#160; Reach the makers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/compare2012.returncontrol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compare 2012<\/a>: <\/font>What Your Vote Means, In Their Own Words<\/p>\n<p>A Side-by-Side Comparison of the 2012 Democratic and Republic Party Platform Documents<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a real eye opener.&#160; Click through.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-rt-us-usa-congress-shutdownbre88l037-20120921,0,1869497.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>: <\/font>A deeply divided and unproductive Congress wrapped up its final business before November&#8217;s elections early on Saturday as the U.S. Senate passed a stopgap measure to fund federal programs and avoid an October 1 government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-30 vote on the funding bill, which now moves to President Barack Obama&#8217;s desk to be signed into law.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You remember I said Republicans would cave-in, if Democrats did not bow to Republican blackmail. 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Republicans did.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"22Cartoon\" alt=\"22Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/22Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s so hard to believe this was a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I blogged and rested, and I plan the same for today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; It will also be my last rest day, as Monday I have an all-say appointment, Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday are <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/open-thread9222012\/' 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-8909","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\/8909","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=8909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}