{"id":9234,"date":"2012-10-25T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2012-10-25T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:07:38","slug":"open-thread10252012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/open-thread10252012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/25\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today is another volunteer day in prison.&#160; It\u2019s an impact meeting with around 100 of my guys discussing the impact of their crimes with crime victims.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies, but only because I answered all at once instead of my normal reply to every comment individually.&#160; I\u2019m already pooped, so I know that tomorrow I\u2019ll have only an Open Thread at best.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jog Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:16 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-25-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\/next-time-you-hear-romney-say-he-built-that-remind-him-of-these-seven-zeroes\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Next Time You Hear Romney Say He &#8216;Built That,&#8217; Remind Him Of These Seven Zeroes<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"25Welfare\" alt=\"25Welfare\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/25Welfare.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"1057\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans love welfare, as long as it&#8217;s for the 1%!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/25\/us\/politics\/insults-and-accusations-fly-in-floridas-house-races.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: \u2026<\/font>But Mr. Grayson, 54, a native New Yorker who put himself through Harvard as a janitor and night watchman, is back, running in a new Democratic-friendly district against Todd Long, a Tea Party activist who has lost two previous House races&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;He has outraised Mr. Long by 55 to 1 and has run weeks of advertisements that, among other things, blasted Mr. Long for wanting to \u201cdismantle\u201d Social Security. Mr. Long backs a plan to privatize the program for people under 55 and raise the retirement age to 72\u2026<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Looks like we&#8217;re going to get Alan Grayson back!! Woooo Hoooo! <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/voice4america.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/23\/ronna-romney-posts-picture-of-ambassador-chris-stevens-mangled-corpse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Voice 4 America<\/a>: <\/font>This is completely classless and disgusting. Ronna Romney, former sister-in-law to Mitt Romney, posted pictures of the mangled body of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens on her Facebook page. The picture includes the words \u201cObama Killed Him\u201d surrounded by dripping blood. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most likely, Willard put her up to doing this. It&#8217;s his style.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"25Cartoon\" alt=\"25Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/25Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is another volunteer day in prison.&#160; It\u2019s an impact meeting with around 100 of my guys discussing the impact of their crimes with crime victims.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies, but only because I answered all at once instead of my normal reply to every comment individually.&#160; I\u2019m already pooped, so I know that tomorrow <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/open-thread10252012\/' 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-9234","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\/9234","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=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}