{"id":8982,"date":"2012-10-01T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:21:07","slug":"open-thread1012012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/open-thread1012012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/1\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Another month has come, and the comfortable temperatures are reminding me why Autumn is my favorite season of the year.&#160; I\u2019ll be spending a lot of time today collecting the data for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies. Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:10 (average 6:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"0930-Broncos37-Raiders6\" alt=\"0930-Broncos37-Raiders6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/0930-Broncos37-Raiders6.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/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\/hilarious-this-snl-spoof-of-fox-and-friends-is-100-spot-on\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">HILARIOUS: This &#8216;SNL&#8217; Parody Of &#8216;Fox And Friends&#8217; Is 100% Spot On<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=3hpoab1ibmulkfhhlgcm8w\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Lord Willard parody is hilarious, and what the comedians said is hard to tell from the real <em>Faux and Fiends<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/81855.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>As President Barack Obama has gained in Ohio polls, so has incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who has now jumped out to a 10-point leadover [sic] GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2012\/10\/01\/brown-opens-lead-on-mandel.html\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a> released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A survey from the Columbus Dispatch found Brown ahead of Mandel by a margin of 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent. The last Dispatch poll, out Aug. 26, had the two candidates tied at 44 percent.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The longer and stronger Obama&#8217;s coattails become, the better off America will be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/nicole-belle\/wtf-meet-press-ralph-reed-casts-doubt\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Those protectionist Villagers are at it again, inviting one of their cocktail partners to opine on a top-rated national program, who deserves no such recognition. And shame on David Gregory and Executive Producer Betsy Fischer Martin for promoting it by inviting Ralph Reed to insult the President of the United States&#8217; honesty in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/23\/us\/politics\/ralph-reed-hopes-to-nudge-mitt-romney-to-a-victory.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">undisclosed role as proxy for the Mitt Romney campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc36d71c\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49230082^0^99833&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc36d71c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=49230082^0^99833&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the same Ralph Reid that duped millions of evangelicals into contributing to keeping women in slave labor camps with forced prostitution in the Marianas. His presence in Lord Willard&#8217;s campaign indicts Lord Willard. His presence on Meet the Press indicts the entire show.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"1Cartoon\" alt=\"1Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And I was in Yankee Stadium for that game. \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another month has come, and the comfortable temperatures are reminding me why Autumn is my favorite season of the year.&#160; I\u2019ll be spending a lot of time today collecting the data for tomorrow\u2019s Monthly Report.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies. Tomorrow appears routine. 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