{"id":9706,"date":"2012-12-07T06:40:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2012-12-07T06:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:40:37","slug":"open-thread1272012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/open-thread1272012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/7\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m rushing today to finish before it\u2019s time to leave for my volunteer day in prison.&#160; I\u2019m current witrh replies, albeit briefly.&#160; I will returned late having missed sleep, so tomorrow I shall post an Open Thread at most.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:10 (average 4:27).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-12-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"1206-Broncos26-Raiders13\" alt=\"1206-Broncos26-Raiders13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1206-Broncos26-Raiders13.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/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\/what-if-everyone-saw-this-message-from-robert-redford-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What If Everyone Saw This Message From Robert Redford?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCHNoUcxRvY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">While Keystone XL would bring a few (very few) jobs, the environmental risk is far too great, especially since it does NOTHING for US energy security. It&#8217;s not earmarked for our use, so once it reaches the Gulf, it becomes the same as any other oil, except dirtier.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/07\/us\/politics\/at-boehners-request-he-and-obama-negotiate-alone.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>At House Speaker John A. Boehner\u2019s request, Senate leaders and Representative Nancy Pelosi have been excluded from talks to avert a fiscal crisis, leaving it to Mr. Boehner and President Obama alone to find a deal, Congressional aides say. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Assuming that Agent Orange bargains in good faith, an overly generous assumption at best, I have little doubt that he will be Teabuggered, if he presents an acceptable deal to the House.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#50111583\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Louie Gohmert (R-TX) stands alone on &#8216;lunatic&#8217;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc4b97aa\" 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=50111583^0^155522&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc4b97aa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=50111583^0^155522&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><\/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\">In this rare instance I have to agree with Gohmert. As long as he is in office, the word &#8216;lunatic&#8217; is needed to describe him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7Cartoon\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/7Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m rushing today to finish before it\u2019s time to leave for my volunteer day in prison.&#160; I\u2019m current witrh replies, albeit briefly.&#160; I will returned late having missed sleep, so tomorrow I shall post an Open Thread at most. 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