{"id":9789,"date":"2012-12-28T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2012-12-28T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:28:06","slug":"open-thread12282012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/28\/open-thread12282012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–12\/28\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately, I\u2019m still not out of the woods from a health perspective.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Maybe tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 4:38 (average 5:12).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Despite clear public support for women\u2019s reproductive rights, Michigan\u2019s Republican-controlled Legislature used the just-ended lame-duck session to ram through harmful measures eliminating insurance coverage of abortions and imposing medically unnecessary regulations on providers of safe and legal abortion care. <\/p>\n

The state\u2019s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, can show real leadership and demonstrate respect for women in his state by refusing to sign these ideologically driven bills into law. <\/p>\n

Click through for the details. His insistence on continuing the Republican War on Women demonstrates that Snyder, like his Republican cronies, has no respect for women.<\/font><\/p>\n

From MSNBC<\/a>:<\/font> Ezra Klein and EJ Dione discuss the media tendency to blame both sides for the current impasse.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

The notion that both sides are to blame is a media lie. One side has given much more trying to come together, while the other side, if anything has moved further away. This misinformation is deceiving the American people, and enabling the Republican Party to insist that, as losers, they should get even more than the winners’ share.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Users of the White House’s "We the People" digital petition platform have flooded the site in support of an effort to officially designate the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.<\/p>\n

The most popular petition<\/a> was submitted on Dec. 14, the same day as the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., an incident that Westboro responded to<\/a> by announcing its intent to picket the funerals of the 26 victims, including 20 young children.,<\/p>\n

This group of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians is arguably the most extreme example of the Republican love affair with hate.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, I\u2019m still not out of the woods from a health perspective.  I\u2019m current with replies.  Maybe tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:38 (average 5:12).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From NY Times: Despite clear public support for women\u2019s reproductive rights, Michigan\u2019s Republican-controlled Legislature used the just-ended […]<\/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-9789","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\/9789","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=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}