{"id":9753,"date":"2012-12-17T03:04:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9753"},"modified":"2012-12-17T03:04:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:04:57","slug":"open-thread12172012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/open-thread12172012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/17\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I got up for a couple hours, and I\u2019m clearly not ready yet.&#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\">Yesterday\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 4:35). To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-12-17-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=\"1215-Broncos34-Ravens17\" alt=\"1215-Broncos34-Ravens17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1215-Broncos34-Ravens17.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\/has-your-family-been-affected-by-this-one-little-word\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Has Your Family Been Affected By This One Little Word?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKEdThFX1Tg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To understand the full destructive impact of <em>VS<\/em>, just consider the Republican War on ______________.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/17\/opinion\/big-decision-on-afghanistan.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>One only has to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/1230_Report_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon\u2019s progress report<\/a> on the Afghanistan war effort released last Monday to understand how pointless it is to keep 68,000 American troops there any longer. The mounting evidence makes it clear that they should be pulled out as soon as it can be done safely, instead of waiting until the end of 2014, the date set by the United States and NATO.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">AMEN!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/16\/louie-gohmert-guns_n_2311379.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>In the wake of the mass killing that claimed 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) made the case Sunday that the answer to preventing massacres in the U.S. is for more Americans to carry guns.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In effect he is saying that the way to keep children safe from motor vehicles is to send them to play on the Interstate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"17Cartoon\" alt=\"17Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/17Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got up for a couple hours, and I\u2019m clearly not ready yet.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Maybe tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Yesterday\u2019s took me 4:07 (average 4:35). To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Religious Ecstasy: Short Takes: From MoveOn: Has Your Family Been Affected By This One Little Word? &#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/open-thread12172012\/' 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-9753","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\/9753","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=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}