{"id":8948,"date":"2012-09-27T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2012-09-27T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:56:05","slug":"open-thread9272012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/open-thread9272012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/27\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a second article for you today, but will have no time to distribute links, before I leave for my volunteer work in prison.&#160; Today I will meet with over 100 guys for their annual essay contest.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; After two volunteer days this week, I expect to be useless tomorrow, but after that I have several days without an appointment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:54 (average 4:36).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-27-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-47-of-americans-made-a-sign-as-awesome-as-this-one\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What if 47% of Americans Made A Sign As Awesome As This One?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"27sign47\" border=\"0\" alt=\"27sign47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/27sign47.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Seamus must have been one of the 47% too.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/27\/opinion\/collins-ohio-gets-the-love.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In my next life, I want to be an undecided voter in Ohio. <\/p>\n<p>Honest to gosh, can you imagine the love? If the Ohio Undecided Voter had a Twitter account, it would have 10 million followers. Each campaign would have an entire operation dedicated to watching it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the best reason to support a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Popular Vote<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2012\/09\/poll-romney-ahead-in-presidential-race-say-replacement-refs.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>G.O.P. Presidential nominee Mitt Romney finally got some good news today as he found himself ahead of President Obama in a poll of N.F.L. replacement referees.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which immediately lifted the spirits of the Romney campaign, was taken among replacement refs on the field during N.F.L. games that they were supposed to be officiating last Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Another bad call!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/27Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"27Cartoon\" alt=\"27Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/27Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a second article for you today, but will have no time to distribute links, before I leave for my volunteer work in prison.&#160; Today I will meet with over 100 guys for their annual essay contest.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; After two volunteer days this week, I expect to be useless tomorrow, but <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/open-thread9272012\/' 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-8948","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\/8948","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=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}