{"id":9738,"date":"2012-12-16T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2012-12-16T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T13:20:19","slug":"open-thread12162012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/open-thread12162012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/16\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m still down, but I took a leap of faith and planned a menu to feed folks on Christmas, so I better be better in time.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Maybe tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:45 (average 5:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-12-16-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\/young-boy-has-a-big-big-problem-with-fish-dna-inside-of-a-tomato-and-hes-doing-something-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Young Boy Has A Big, Big Problem With Fish DNA Inside Of A Tomato, And He&#8217;s Doing Something About It<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7Id9caYw-Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What children can understand, criminal corporate farmers can too. They just care more about profit, and they know the Republican Party has their back.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/16\/us\/mislabeled-foods-find-their-way-to-diners-tables.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The subject of deceptive restaurant menus took on new life last week when Oceana, an international organization dedicated to ocean conservation, released a report with the headline \u201cWidespread Seafood Fraud Found in New York City.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Using genetic testing, the group found tilapia and tilefish posing as red snapper. Farmed salmon was sold as wild. Escolar, which can also legally be called oil fish, was disguised as white tuna, which is an unofficial nickname for albacore tuna. <\/p>\n<p>Every one of 16 sushi bars investigated sold the researchers mislabeled fish. In all, 39 percent of the seafood from 81 grocery stores and restaurants was not what the establishment claimed it was. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is yet more proof of the importance of knowing what we eat, but Republicans want to cut and slash funding for the enforcement of even the inadequate safeguards we have.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/12\/15\/1341551\/newspaper-runs-gun-ad-next-to-coverage-of-connecticut-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldonline.com\/\">Rock Hill Herald<\/a><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">, a newspaper in South Carolina, printed a large ad for a big gun sale in Rock Hill on the same page as its coverage of Friday\u2019s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The ad, which touted Christmas discounts on Smith &amp; Wesson assault rifles, ran in Saturday\u2019s edition on pages A4-A5: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"16Screen-shot\" alt=\"16Screen-shot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/16Screen-shot.png\" width=\"623\" height=\"616\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The paper has to be Republican owned and operated. They alone could be this insensitive.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"16Cartoon\" alt=\"16Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/16Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Once again, the US needs to follow Canada\u2019s example.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m still down, but I took a leap of faith and planned a menu to feed folks on Christmas, so I better be better in time.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Maybe tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:45 (average 5:50).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/open-thread12162012\/' 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-9738","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\/9738","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=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}