{"id":9014,"date":"2012-10-04T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2012-10-04T09:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:31:52","slug":"open-thread1042012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/open-thread1042012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–10\/4\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was late yesterday, as anticipated.  Today I will be late, because writing the debate article will take time.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:57 (average 4:06).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Awesome Quote Going Around About Women’s Rights From Barack Obama<\/p>\n

\"4Women\"<\/p>\n

He’s spot-on and the exact opposite of the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

From CBS<\/a>: <\/font>A House committee says a State Department officer told panel members there were 13 threats made against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya during the six months before the Sept. 11 attack on the facility.<\/font><\/p>\n

What the committee did not say is that there are hundreds of threats against US Embassies and Consulates around the world every day, so insulations that these should have been taken more seriously then the rest are bogus.<\/font><\/p>\n

From LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>New polling continues to show a potential shift toward Democrats in the battle to control the Senate, while analysts say the race for the House majority maintains a tilt toward Republicans.<\/p>\n

Democratic candidates are ahead in the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Wisconsin<\/a>, states that have been key Republican targets as they try to wrest majority Senate control.<\/p>\n

After last night we need some good news!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

\"4Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was late yesterday, as anticipated.  Today I will be late, because writing the debate article will take time.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:57 (average 4:06).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: The Awesome Quote Going Around About Women’s […]<\/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-9014","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\/9014","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=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}