{"id":9835,"date":"2013-01-11T02:38:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2013-01-11T02:38:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T10:38:53","slug":"open-thread1112013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/open-thread1112013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/11\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There\u2019s still no change in my status.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; This has to end sometime.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:39 (average 4:52)&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-01-11-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\/jon-stewart-asks-what-would-anyone-who-isnt-an-ahole-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Jon Stewart Asks &#8216;What Would Anyone Who Isn&#8217;t An A**hole Do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:422641\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe>      <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 4px\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/mon-january-7-2013\/c--k-block-you-on-the-hurricane\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b>         <br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What would anyone who isn&#8217;t an asshole do? They would oppose the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/11\/opinion\/americas-health-disadvantage.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>An authoritative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iom.edu\/Reports\/2013\/US-Health-in-International-Perspective-Shorter-Lives-Poorer-Health.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">report issued by the Institute of Medicine this week<\/a> found that, on average, Americans experience higher rates of disease and injury and die sooner than people in other high-income countries. That is true at all ages between birth and 75 and for even well-off Americans who mistakenly think that top-tier medical care ensures that they will remain in good health. The study found that even upper-income Americans with health insurance and college educations appear to be sicker than their peers in other rich nations. <\/p>\n<p>The study was commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, the federal government\u2019s top medical research agency, and was carried out by experts appointed by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, two units of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. It is the first analysis to compare the burden of multiple diseases and injuries in the United States and 16 other affluent democracies, including Western European countries, Australia, Canada and Japan. <\/p>\n<p>American men ranked last in life expectancy among the 17 countries and American women ranked next to last. The United States also ranked at or near the bottom in nine areas, including heart disease, chronic lung disease, obesity and diabetes, injuries and homicides, and sexually transmitted diseases. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a byproduct of emphasizing profit over health in US health care delivery. Multi-payer for-profit coverage and fee-for-service delivery are both obsolete. The best way to overcome this shameful state of affairs is to switch to single-payer coverage and fee-for-patient or fee-for-outcome delivery.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#50427884\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ed Schultz interviewed Bernie Sanders on financial inequity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc8c1a81\" 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=50427884^0^543877&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc8c1a81\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=50427884^0^543877&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\">The statistics show how absurd it is to balance the budget on the backs of the 80% of Americans who own just 5% of the wealth. Bernie made it clear that is exactly what Republicans are trying to do. To do this they are telling the lie that spending is the problem, when the bulk of the problem stems from keeping the share of revenue paid by the very rich at an all-time low and failing to make sufficient investment in economic recovery,&#160;&#160; Bernie is right that filibuster reform is an absolute necessity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"11Cartoon\" alt=\"11Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/11Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still no change in my status.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; This has to end sometime. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:39 (average 4:52)&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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