{"id":9183,"date":"2012-10-18T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9183"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:19:09","slug":"open-thread10182012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/open-thread10182012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/18\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m running behind because defrosting my freezer is a bigger distraction than I remembered.&#160; My fridge sits on carpet and is across the room from the sink, so I have to empty the catch tray under the freezer every five or ten minutes to avoid an overflow onto the carpet, and change the bowls of hot water in the freezer to accelerate the ice melting every fifteen.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine, except for online grocery shopping to fill the empty fridge. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:56 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-18-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\/whoa-tagg-romney-caught-on-tape-saying-he-wanted-to-take-a-swing-at-the-president\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>WHOA: Tagg Romney Caught On Tape Saying He Wanted To Take A Swing At The President<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZLDPTaR0Wbo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Lord Willard did not want Obama contradicting his statements as untrue, he should told the truth. He called Obama a liar and was busted! As for Tagg, his preference is to respond to an intellectual challenge with physical violence. Obviously the apple did not tall far from the tree.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2012\/10\/17\/fed-bombing-plot-foiled\/1640035\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>A Bangladeshi national, allegedly inspired by fallen al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was arrested Wednesday by federal authorities who accused him of a plot to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was taken into custody after allegedly assembling and attempting to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb whose components \u2014 unknown to him \u2014 had been provided by undercover federal agents.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank goodness a Democrat is in the White House!&#160; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have to wonder if he was working for Al Qaeda or Ron Paul! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/10\/romney-campaign-lilly-ledbetter.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told the Huffington Post after the debate that Romney <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/adviser-romney-did-not-support-lilly-ledbetter-act\" target=\"_blank\">opposed<\/a> the passage of the bill, but would not repeal it. <\/p>\n<p>A day later, he said something completely different to TPM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was wrong when I said last night Governor Romney opposed the Lily Ledbetter act,\u201d Gillespie said in a statement. \u201cHe never weighed in on it. As President, he would not seek to repeal it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a load of malarkey! I saw Romney voice opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Act in one of the early Republican debates.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"18Cartoon\" alt=\"18Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/18Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m running behind because defrosting my freezer is a bigger distraction than I remembered.&#160; My fridge sits on carpet and is across the room from the sink, so I have to empty the catch tray under the freezer every five or ten minutes to avoid an overflow onto the carpet, and change the bowls of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/open-thread10182012\/' 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-9183","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\/9183","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=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}