{"id":9551,"date":"2012-11-21T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2012-11-21T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T16:50:45","slug":"open-thread11212012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/open-thread11212012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/21\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m feeling somewhat better today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies, albeit in brief manner.&#160; Tomorrow I\u2019m feeding people in my building, who are too poor to have Thanksgiving dinner.&#160; I\u2019m providing all the food, and they are helping do some of the cooking, so I will have three articles at most then.<\/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 4:58).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-11-21-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\/soledad-obrien-makes-this-guy-repeat-himself-until-his-bullsh_t-sounds-dumb-even-to-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Soledad O&#8217;Brien Makes This Guy Repeat Himself Until His Bullsh_t Sounds Dumb Even To Him<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93MtwI-xEpY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While I think CNN is right-biased overall, I have to admire Soledad&#8217;s bulldog tenacity, as mush as I disrespect Republican Bullshitology.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/21\/world\/europe\/former-murdoch-aides-to-be-charged-with-bribery.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In a new turn in the scandals swirling around Rupert Murdoch\u2019s British newspaper outpost, prosecutors said on Tuesday that two former top executives would be charged with paying bribes of up to $160,000 to public officials, in addition to several earlier charges against them. <\/p>\n<p>The Crown Prosecution Service identified the onetime aides as Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, both of whom have had close personal or professional ties to Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr. Cameron hired Mr. Coulson as his director of communications while in opposition and kept him on after coming to power in the 2010 elections. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Tories appear to be in bed with Murdoch&#8217;s criminal activities, as I&#8217;m sure Republicans are here. We need more investigation on this side of the pond.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/how-vulture-capitalists-killed-twinkie\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>How Vulture Capitalists Killed the Twinkie<\/p>\n<p>The demise of Hostess is a story of management that boosted its own salaries, while failing to make agreed payments into workers\u2019 pension funds.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I strongly encourage you to click through to this extensive article that explains in detail how the failure of Hostess is a textbook example of Vulture Capitalism, similar to Bain. Republicans support Vulture Capitalism by wanting less regulation of Vulture Capitalists, when more is clearly needed.<\/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=\"21Cartoon\" alt=\"21Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/21Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party was more honest back then.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m feeling somewhat better today.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies, albeit in brief manner.&#160; Tomorrow I\u2019m feeding people in my building, who are too poor to have Thanksgiving dinner.&#160; I\u2019m providing all the food, and they are helping do some of the cooking, so I will have three articles at most then. 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