{"id":9287,"date":"2012-10-31T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T20:36:03","slug":"open-thread10312012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/open-thread10312012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/31\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, computerizing my friend\u2019s bookkeeping went as well as could be expected under the circumstances.&#160; I voted for Democrats.&#160; I\u2019m sorry to announce that the HSP\u2019s server, on which Politics Plus runs, went down, forcing the blog offline from around 11:30 PM (PDT) until 4:30 AM, and again from around 7:30 AM until just a few minutes ago.&#160; In addition,m several sites where I do research were down too.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:02 (average 4:52).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-31-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\/a-chilling-clip-that-illustrates-what-happens-when-latinos-dont-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>A Chilling Clip That Illustrates What Happens When Latinos Don&#8217;t Vote<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cPnqbdC36i8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is so true and not just for Latinos. Republicans are working overtime to dehumanize ALL the people they are trying to disenfranchise.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/30\/mitt-romney-fema_n_2044213.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Mitt Romney refused to answer reporters&#8217; questions about how he would handle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after a Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/30\/mitt-romney-hurricane-sandy_n_2043934.html?1351613617\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;storm relief&quot; event<\/a> in Ohio for Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gee!&#160; I wonder why!&#160; Cof folks actually be glad to have FEMA at the moment!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2012\/10\/romney-says-he-favors-abortion-in-cases-where-it-makes-people-vote-for-him.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Hitting the campaign trail one day after the arrival of Superstorm Sandy, Republican nominee Mitt Romney tweaked his position on abortion today, saying he now supports it in cases where it makes people vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would make an exception for abortion in cases where the life of my campaign is at stake,\u201d he told a crowd in Kettering, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast last night, was such a powerful weather system that it prevented Mr. Romney from changing his position on abortion for twenty-four hours.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Poor Little Lord Willard!&#160; That must have been sooooooo painful!&#160; For him, being unable to lie must have been like eating a triple-portion of twelve alarm chili and having a corked butt!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"31Cartoon\" alt=\"31Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/31Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, computerizing my friend\u2019s bookkeeping went as well as could be expected under the circumstances.&#160; I voted for Democrats.&#160; I\u2019m sorry to announce that the HSP\u2019s server, on which Politics Plus runs, went down, forcing the blog offline from around 11:30 PM (PDT) until 4:30 AM, and again from around 7:30 AM until just a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/open-thread10312012\/' 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":[31,35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-31-id","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\/9287","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=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}