{"id":9473,"date":"2012-11-15T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2012-11-15T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T17:37:18","slug":"open-thread11152012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/open-thread11152012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/15\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I slept most of the day and night to recover from my volunteer day, so I had to spend some extra research time this morning to catch up.&#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 4:26 (5:26 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-11-15-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\/ronald-reagan-social-security-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-deficit\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Ronald Reagan: &#8216;Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihUoRD4pYzI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Saint Ronnie Ray Gun says so, Republicans obviously know this. Then why all the lies?&#160; They want to give the Social Security Trust Fund to vulture capitalists.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/14\/senator-elect-angus-king-of-maine-to-caucus-with-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Surprising no one, Senator-elect Angus King, independent of Maine, announced Wednesday that he would caucus with the Senate Democrats, but insisted that he would maintain his political independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy associating myself with one side, I am not in automatic opposition to the other,\u201d the former Maine governor told reporters, saying that \u201cin some small way\u201d he would be a \u201cbridge between the parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That makes the final Senate tally 55-45. In order to get anything done, we need filibuster reform.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/tucsoncitizen.com\/in-the-aggregate\/2012\/11\/14\/a-post-gopocalypse-waterworld-for-teabaggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tucson Citizen<\/a>: <\/font>In the same week that Steven Spielberg&#8217;s biopic movie &quot;Lincoln&quot; premiered in theaters, reminding us all how Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union, the so-called Tea Party &quot;Patriots&quot; (sic) are petitioning the White House to secede from the United Sates, an act of sedition and insurrection, because their candidate did not win the presidency. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Nothing demonstrates Reoublican patriotism of InsaniTEA better. What hypocrites!<\/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=\"15Cartoon\" alt=\"15Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/15Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I slept most of the day and night to recover from my volunteer day, so I had to spend some extra research time this morning to catch up.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:26 (5:26 average).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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