{"id":8921,"date":"2012-09-23T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2012-09-23T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:07:52","slug":"open-thread9232012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/open-thread9232012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/23\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the Denver congregation\u2019s meditation with Houston is on TV here. :-)&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have an all day appointment, so I may post nothing at all.&#160; Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday, I should be close to useless recovering from them.&#160; color me scarce all week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 5:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-23-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\/shocking-the-truth-about-how-walmart-treats-the-employees-you-dont-see\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>SHOCKING: The Truth About How Walmart Treats The Employees You Don&#8217;t See<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EiNwIK9t1Lw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Willard gets to change America\u2019s work environment, making it more like the Chinese factory he so admires, the one where the workers sleep triple bunked, I don&#8217;t have to wonder what company will be leading the way to help him. I have been boycotting Wal-fart for over 10 years because of how they treat their employees. There are plenty of other reasons from which to choose, too.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/23\/us\/politics\/ralph-reed-hopes-to-nudge-mitt-romney-to-a-victory.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>At the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he [Ralph Reed] was sought after by party luminaries and afforded the ultimate status accommodation, a room in the same hotel as Mitt Romney. And soon he plans to unleash a sophisticated, microtargeted get-out-the-evangelical-vote operation that he believes could nudge open a margin of victory if Mr. Romney can keep the race close.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the same Ralph Reed that convinced evangelicals to donate to a campaign to deny the workers un the Marianas a minimum wage. He told them that the Chinese women were being converted to Christianity. However the women really worked in slave labor camps enduring forced prostitution to enrich Reed&#8217;s clients. This is the man Willard has chosen for his get-out-the-vote effort.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebanondailyrecord.com\/news\/state\/article_4b2191ff-9263-5a10-8166-6ce84201f608.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon Daily Record<\/a>: <\/font>Republican Rep. Todd Akin&#8217;s comments about rape are evidence of his extremism on several issues, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday at the first debate between the Missouri Senate candidates. Akin painted his opponent as a big-spender who votes 90 percent of the time with President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have long looked at Missouri as a winnable state in the effort to gain control of the Senate. Akin, 65, a six-term congressman from suburban St. Louis, won a hotly contested three-way race for the GOP Senate nomination on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>But just weeks later, Akin set off a furor in a televised interview by saying that women&#8217;s bodies have a natural defense against pregnancy in cases of &quot;legitimate rape.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Clair McCaskill is, in part, a DINO, but considering her opponent, I&#8217;ll take the DINO.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"23Cartoon\" alt=\"23Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/23Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the Denver congregation\u2019s meditation with Houston is on TV here. :-)&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have an all day appointment, so I may post nothing at all.&#160; Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday, I should <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/open-thread9232012\/' 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-8921","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\/8921","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=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}