{"id":9244,"date":"2012-10-26T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2012-10-26T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:04:19","slug":"open-thread10262012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/open-thread10262012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/26\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday the victims impact meeting in prison was excellent.&#160; My guys demonstrated authentic empathy toward the victims, recognizing the pain they have suffered, and the victims responded with compassion and concern.&#160; As always, I felt proud.&#160; This is today\u2019s only article, but I am current with replies to yesterday\u2019s articles.&#160; On a scale of one to ten, I\u2019m pooped, so I\u2019m going back to bed.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine.&#160; Good night!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:39 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-26-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\/shocking-mitt-romney-footage-im-a-big-believer-in-getting-money-where-money-is-and-its-in-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>SHOCKING Mitt Romney Footage: &#8216;I&#8217;m A Big Believer In Getting Money Where Money Is, And It&#8217;s In Washington&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yR_Mn4Skt4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lord Willard just loves that federal government to spend money\u2026 for the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/26\/opinion\/krugman-pointing-toward-prosperity.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney has been barnstorming the country, telling voters that he has a five-point plan to restore prosperity. And some voters, alas, seem to believe what he\u2019s saying. So President Obama has now responded with his own plan, a little blue booklet containing 27 policy proposals. How do these two plans stack up?<\/p>\n<p>Well, as I\u2019ve said before, Mr. Romney\u2019s \u201cplan\u201d is a sham\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;So Mr. Romney is faking it. His real plan seems to be to foster economic recovery through magic, inspiring business confidence through his personal awesomeness. But what about the man he wants to kick out of the White House? <\/p>\n<p>Well, Mr. Obama\u2019s booklet comes a lot closer to being an actual plan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I strongly urge you to click through and read this entire editorial by Paul Krugman.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pFQJrkCGJGU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Colin Powell Endorses President Obama &#8211; October 25, 2012 <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFQJrkCGJGU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Could Powell be the last big name Republican with integrity?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"26Cartoon\" alt=\"26Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/26Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the victims impact meeting in prison was excellent.&#160; My guys demonstrated authentic empathy toward the victims, recognizing the pain they have suffered, and the victims responded with compassion and concern.&#160; As always, I felt proud.&#160; This is today\u2019s only article, but I am current with replies to yesterday\u2019s articles.&#160; On a scale of one <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/open-thread10262012\/' 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-9244","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\/9244","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=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}