{"id":8969,"date":"2012-09-30T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2012-09-30T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T17:28:13","slug":"open-thread9302012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/open-thread9302012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/30\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I will be meditating. ;-)  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 4:06 (average 5:34).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What If Everyone Saw This Facebook Status?<\/p>\n

\"30Status\"<\/p>\n

What if we put the party responsible for all out of business?<\/font><\/p>\n

From Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Voters in three critical swing states broadly oppose the far-reaching changes to Medicare \u00adassociated with the Republican presidential ticket and, by big margins, prefer President Obama to handle the issue, according to new state polls by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

For seniors in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, Medicare rivals the economy as a top voting issue. And by majorities topping 70 percent, seniors say they prefer to keep Medicare as a program with guaranteed benefits, rather than moving to a system in which the government gives recipients fixed payments to buy coverage from private insurers or traditional Medicare, as Romney advocates.<\/p>\n

As always the interests of the Republican Party and the interests of the vast majority of Americans are polar opposites.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Florida Times-Union<\/a>: <\/font>In audio picked up by an answering machine, a volunteer for the Republican Party of Clay County can be heard calling President Barack Obama \u201ca Muslim\u201d and saying he wants to \u201cget rid of your Medicare\u201d while reaching out to voters in support of Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

The call was made as part of a statewide phone bank for Romney\u2019s campaign being conducted by the Clay County GOP. The volunteer, who was not identified, did not hang up before moving onto her next call.<\/p>\n

Her pitch to the next person was picked up on the first person\u2019s answering machine.<\/p>\n

Too much! Here’s a link to the audio<\/a>. Note how the woman recommended the Republican Ministry of Propaganda for confirmation of her lies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"30Cartoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I may be peeing into the wind, but I\u2019m still calling for trials for war criminals Bush and Cheney.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I will be meditating. ;-)  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:06 (average 5:34).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: What If Everyone Saw This Facebook Status? What if […]<\/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-8969","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\/8969","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=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}