{"id":9197,"date":"2012-10-20T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2012-10-20T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:48:30","slug":"open-thread10202012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/20\/open-thread10202012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/20\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I guess I needed to take yesterday off, because I slept almost all day and all night.&#160; I\u2019m back on track today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but my Broncos are celebrating LGBT equality instead.&#160; This is their bi week. \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 4:06 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-20-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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=EsG2TvxiZd8\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Real Complainers Vote <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EsG2TvxiZd8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The duty to vote and the need to oppose Lord Willard are equally obvious.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2012\/10\/20\/politics\/jobless-rate-battleground-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/a>: <\/font>Unemployment rates fell last month in nearly all of the battleground states that will determine the presidential winner, giving President Barack Obama fresh fodder to argue that voters should stick with him in an election focused squarely on the economy. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every little bit of good news helps.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/20\/us-usa-abortion-arizona-idUSBRE89J00C20121020\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>A federal judge blocked Arizona on Friday from applying a new law that bars Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving money through the state to provide medical care because the women&#8217;s health organization also performs abortions.<\/p>\n<p>District Court Judge Neil Wake issued a temporary injunction after Planned Parenthood sued over the law, which would have cut off Medicaid funding for family planning and health services delivered by organizations offering abortions. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that provides health care coverage for low-income people.<\/p>\n<p>The law, signed by Governor Jan Brewer in May, is part of a national campaign against Planned Parenthood orchestrated by conservative Republican lawmakers who oppose abortion.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!&#160; It\u2019s a great day for women in the Totalitarian Racist Misogynocracy&#160; of Brewerstan, and I bet that the Death Angel, Jan Brewer, is having a hissy fit!<\/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=\"20Cartoon\" alt=\"20Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This may have been the beginning of standard practice for today\u2019s Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I needed to take yesterday off, because I slept almost all day and all night.&#160; I\u2019m back on track today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but my Broncos are celebrating LGBT equality instead.&#160; This is their bi week. \ud83d\ude09 Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/20\/open-thread10202012\/' 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-9197","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\/9197","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=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}