{"id":9208,"date":"2012-10-21T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2012-10-21T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:27:32","slug":"open-thread10212012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/open-thread10212012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/21\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I have a month\u2019s groceries being delivered, which I shall have to unpack and put away.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; The rest of the week is completely up in the air, because Monday is a medical day, Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday are recovery days.&#160; Expect little more than Open Threads and Personal Updates.&#160; I will try to get debate coverage up on Tuesday before I leave.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:50 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-21-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\/watch-anderson-cooper-destroy-the-romneyryan-6-studies-tax-plan-myth-in-4-minutes\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Watch Anderson Cooper Destroy The Romney\/Ryan &#8216;6 Studies&#8217; Tax Plan Myth In 4 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRxFImAnN1Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is no way Willard&#8217;s numbers add up without making the middle class pay more. That is the conclusion of the only non partisan study done on this. The ones Lord Willard and Lyin&#8217; Ryan point to are just partisan propaganda based on assumptions with no evidentiary basis.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/view.bg?articleid=1061169246&amp;pos=breaking\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Herald<\/a>: <\/font>A family spokesman says former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are few, if any politicians in my lifetime more compassionate and ethical than he was. He will be missed. Thoughts and prayers to his loved ones.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/tea-party-report-collecting-shots-bi\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Susie Sampson sets out this week, reporting from Tea Party land, to put together a binder full of women for Mitt Romney. But she has trouble finding takers. See, that&#8217;s the problem if you decide to have women in the workforce! <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4LosBiOhlzc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Women who support Lord Willard and Lyin&#8217; Ryan must have been wearing blinders, while being put in binders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"21Cartoon\" alt=\"21Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/21Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I have a month\u2019s groceries being delivered, which I shall have to unpack and put away.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; The rest of the week is completely up in the air, because Monday is a medical day, Tuesday and Thursday are prison <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/open-thread10212012\/' 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-9208","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\/9208","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=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}