{"id":9050,"date":"2012-10-07T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2012-10-07T09:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T16:43:01","slug":"open-thread1072012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/open-thread1072012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/7\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is a holy day in the Church Of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I will be meditating even though the meeting between the Broncos congregation and the Patriots will not be televised locally.&#160; The media powers that be think Oregonians want to watch the Sea Chickens. :-(&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have work to do in preparation for Tuesday\u2019s volunteer work in prison.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:05 (average 5:09).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/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\/the-secret-that-job-creators-like-walmart-wont-tell-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">The Secret That &#8216;Job Creators&#8217; Like Walmart Won&#8217;t Tell You<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><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=\"7walton\" border=\"0\" alt=\"7walton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/7walton.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"553\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wow! Do I hear an Amen?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2012\/10\/07\/jonesboro-lawmakers-race-comments-stir-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\">WREG<\/a>: <\/font>Arkansas Republicans are trying to distance themselves from a Jonesboro lawmaker who states slavery was a \u201cblessing in disguise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Jon Hubbard (R, Jonesboro) made the statement in a self-published book in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They only want out, because he got caught writing what they believe.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/82081.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>The owner of a Denver restaurant who has received death threats after declining a visit by Mitt Romney said Friday that he \u201ccould feel the hate in the air\u201d at his business recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Thursday, it was horrible,\u201d Oscar Aguirre, the owner of Rosa Linda\u2019s Mexican Cafe, told POLITICO. \u201cIt was dead. Yesterday during lunch, you could feel the hate in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aguirre said the death threats came after the Denver alt-weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.westword.com\/cafesociety\/2012\/10\/mitt_romney_chipotle_rosa_lind.php\" target=\"_blank\">Westword reported<\/a> Tuesday that the restaurant had turned down an offer by the Romney campaign to drop by before Wednesday night\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I guess that&#8217;s what happens when Latinos refuse to be used as props to deceive voters into thinking the Lord of Lies is not a bigot.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: I have joined the other animals.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7Cartoon\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/7Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/>\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a holy day in the Church Of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I will be meditating even though the meeting between the Broncos congregation and the Patriots will not be televised locally.&#160; The media powers that be think Oregonians want to watch the Sea Chickens. :-(&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow I have work to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/open-thread1072012\/' 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-9050","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\/9050","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=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}