{"id":8958,"date":"2012-09-29T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2012-09-29T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:30:38","slug":"open-thread9292012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/open-thread9292012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/29\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You wouldn\u2019t believe how pooped I was yesterday!&#160; Except for preparing the Open Thread and helping half a dozen residents of my building register to vote, I slept through the day.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the meditation between the Denver congregation and the Oakland congregation will be televised here.&#160; Wooo Hooo!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:22 (average 4:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-09-29-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\/awesome-great-grandma-gives-romney-a-piece-of-her-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Awesome Great-Grandma Gives Romney A Piece Of Her Mind<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klOrOksx7iE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The freeloaders are people like Lord Willard that stack the deck, so they get tax breaks that allow them to legally evade paying their fair share.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/29\/us\/homeland-security-puts-it-in-writing-on-immigration-policy-and-gay-couples.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Department of Homeland Security has stated in writing that foreigners who are same-sex partners of American citizens can be included under an Obama administration policy suspending deportations of some immigrants who pose no security risk.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">So it should be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120929\/NEWS15\/309290140\/Senate-Republicans-working-on-replacement-for-EM-law\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Free Press<\/a>: <\/font>The leader of the state Senate said he and fellow Republican colleagues are armed with a proposal to replace the state law that lets emergency managers take over local governments in the event voters strike it down in November.<\/p>\n<p>The behind-the-scenes effort, which doesn&#8217;t appear to involve Republican House leaders or GOP Gov. Rick Snyder, aims to keep a form of the contentious law on the books<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is there nothing beneath Republicans when it comes to imposing totalitarian rule?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: The worse the outlook for their party, the more desperate they become, so\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"29Cartoon\" alt=\"29Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/29Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn\u2019t believe how pooped I was yesterday!&#160; Except for preparing the Open Thread and helping half a dozen residents of my building register to vote, I slept through the day.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the meditation between the Denver congregation and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/open-thread9292012\/' 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-8958","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\/8958","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=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}