{"id":9696,"date":"2012-12-06T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2012-12-06T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:05:49","slug":"open-thread1262012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/open-thread1262012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/6\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My COPD is still pretty severe, but I\u2019m in the saddle and current with replies.&#160; Tonight is a special holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, because my Broncos take on the Raiders in a Thursday night meditation.&#160; Tomorrow I hope to get articles up before leaving for a volunteer day in prison.&#160; I normally never go on a Friday, but the prison is closing the activities section during the latter half of the month for the holidays, so we\u2019re on an unusual schedule.&#160; Next Tuesday will be my last volunteer day this month.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:32 (average 4:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-12-06-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\/one-chart-gives-you-20-reasons-to-support-unions\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>One Chart Gives You 20 Reasons To Support Unions<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"6unions\" alt=\"6unions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6unions.png\" width=\"610\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Almost every one is sufficient reason in itself.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/12\/fiscal-cliff-voters-want-to-raise-taxes-on-wealthy-84675.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Voters support higher taxes on the wealthy by a margin of better than 2 to 1, according to a new poll Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-five percent of voters back increased taxes for Americans making more than $250,000 a year, while 31 percent oppose, according to a Quinnipiac University <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/institutes-centers\/polling-institute\/national\/release-detail?ReleaseID=1821\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a> released. Democrats support that measure 84-14 percent, and independents are in favor of the tax hikes 66-31 percent. Republicans, on the other hand, oppose such tax increases 53-41 percent, the poll found.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Popular support guarantees Republican opposition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/06\/simpson-bowles-explained\/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&amp;seid=auto\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Obama went too far by demanding $1.6 trillion in revenue, that he should have stayed with Simpson-Bowles \u2014 which calls for $2.2 trillion in revenue.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Obama is being far more reasonable than Republicans deserve.<\/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=\"6Cartoon\" alt=\"6Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A day of mourning for Teabaggers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My COPD is still pretty severe, but I\u2019m in the saddle and current with replies.&#160; Tonight is a special holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, because my Broncos take on the Raiders in a Thursday night meditation.&#160; Tomorrow I hope to get articles up before leaving for a volunteer day in prison.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/open-thread1262012-2\/' 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-9696","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\/9696","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=9696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}