{"id":8935,"date":"2012-09-24T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:53:32","slug":"open-thread9242012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/open-thread9242012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/24\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I pulled myself away from meditation upon the Ellipsoid Orb to watch the President and Lord Willard on 60 Minutes.  I\u2019m sad to report that as soon as Lord Willard started droning on with his standard lies and evasions, the SOB put me right to sleep, so I missed almost all of it.  I\u2019m off shortly to an appointment.  I\u2019m not current with replies, but I\u2019ll catch up when I can.  Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, but I may have time to do some blogging beforehand.  We\u2019ll see.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:56 (4:32 average).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0923-Broncos25-Texans31\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>A Question For Your Best Republican Friend<\/p>\n

\"24aquestionforyourbest\"<\/p>\n

It’s clear that Republican governance brings ignorance and poverty to all but the rich.  Most exceptions are extremely over-endowed with natural resources.<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times: <\/font>Representative Paul D. Ryan\u2019s selection as the Republican vice-presidential nominee is now yielding something Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign can do without: second-guessing about how Mr. Ryan is being put to use.<\/p>\n

Through the halls of Congress and well beyond, a whisper campaign is bursting into the open: Rather than burden him with the usual constraints on a ticket\u2019s No. 2 not to upstage or get ahead of the presidential nominee, let Ryan be Ryan and take a detailed, policy-heavy fight to President Obama and the Democrats. <\/p>\n

Ironically, I agree with the conservatives pushing this idea. The closer they allow Ryan to being Ryan, the closer Obama comes to keeping the Presidency.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Tennessee Majority Leader, Rep. Gerald McCormick (R) was caught stealing Frank Eaton, the Democratic candidate for TN-27th sign’s in a public right of way on Saturday.  He also cursed out Frank Eaton in front of his wife, Joy.  It is bad enough to steal signs, but cursing is never acceptable or becoming conduct of a public official in the South, even prisoners, parolees, gang members all have manners and conduct in front of women – not so for the Majority Leader McCormick.<\/p>\n

Also not so for most of today’s Republican politicians. They view sign stealing the same way they view election theft, and they do not respect women, because their party is at war with women.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"24Cartoon\"<\/p>\n

What turns him on most is knowing that he stole it from us.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I pulled myself away from meditation upon the Ellipsoid Orb to watch the President and Lord Willard on 60 Minutes.  I\u2019m sad to report that as soon as Lord Willard started droning on with his standard lies and evasions, the SOB put me right to sleep, so I missed almost all of it.  I\u2019m […]<\/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-8935","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\/8935","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=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}