{"id":9682,"date":"2012-12-05T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2012-12-05T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:45:17","slug":"open-thread1252012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/open-thread1252012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/5\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday my COPD remained severe.&#160; I didn\u2019t get as much sleep as I needed, but did get enough to get by.&#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 4:00 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-12-05-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\/michael-j-fox-has-one-simple-simple-request\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Michael J. Fox Has One Simple, Simple Request<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TghIpBG5o3s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree. I have not yet come down on one side or the other regarding GMOs, because there&#8217;s too much about them that I don&#8217;t know. However, people who choose not to eat foods that contain them are denied that right without labeling. Republicans oppose labeling, because without it, giant corporations make more profits feeding them to people who don&#8217;t want them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/05\/business\/economy\/republicans-balk-at-obamas-short-term-stimulus.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration is arguing that the sluggish economy requires a shot in the arm, and it included tens of billions of dollars of little-noticed stimulus measures in its much-noticed proposal to Congressional leaders last week. But Republicans have countered that the country cannot afford to widen the deficit further, and have balked at including the measures in any eventual deal. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every penny Democrats spend on the need of all Americans is a penny Republicans can&#8217;t spend on the greed of billionaires.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#50080092\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow broke down the Republican debt ceiling plan, and exposed the dishonesty of conservative complaints about it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc8baa2f\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50080092^0^384051&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc8baa2f\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=50080092^0^384051&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is no way that the Republican proposal could be more skewed to their own wants, so all that whining is as phony as virtually everything else they do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"5Cartoon\" alt=\"5Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/5Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my COPD remained severe.&#160; I didn\u2019t get as much sleep as I needed, but did get enough to get by.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow appears routine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:00 (average 4:38).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From MoveOn: Michael J. 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