{"id":9132,"date":"2012-10-14T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2012-10-14T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T17:29:26","slug":"open-thread10142012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/open-thread10142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/14\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine, except that my Broncos are on Monday Night Meditation. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 5:15 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-14-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\/the-most-powerful-defense-of-teachers-paramedics-and-police-weve-seen-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>The Most Powerful Defense Of Teachers, Paramedics, And Police We&#8217;ve Seen Yet<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Omv_feHAhjc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">RepubliCorp has a solution. Outsource your emergencies and our students to China.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-grabs-wide-lead-among-those-already-voted-050814783.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo News<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are neck and neck in opinion polls, but there is one area in which the incumbent appears to have a big advantage: those who have already cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Obama leads Romney by 59 percent to 31 percent among early voters, according to Reuters\/Ipsos polling data compiled in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll take good news wherever I can find it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/10\/13\/1143850\/-Mitt-Romney-debates-himself-round-2\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>By popular demand, here&#8217;s round 2 of &quot;Mitt Romney debates himself&quot;:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZfXvFAeHVo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Another Etch-a-Sketch goes up in flames from friction.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"14Cartoon\" alt=\"14Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/14Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine, except that my Broncos are on Monday Night Meditation. \ud83d\ude09 Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 5:15 (average 5:43).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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