{"id":9934,"date":"2013-02-07T04:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2013-02-07T04:22:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:22:25","slug":"open-thread272013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/open-thread272013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;2\/7\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, research and blogging took almost ten hours and really tired me out.&nbsp; Today I am doing laundry while writing.&nbsp; Some things never change.&nbsp; I still HATE laundry. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Green with envy\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-greenwithenvy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wlEmoticon-greenwithenvy.png\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" \/>&nbsp; I&rsquo;m current with replies.&nbsp; I expect to be back tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&rsquo;s took me 3:59 (average 5:10).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2013-02-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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\/these-young-kids-are-facing-a-death-sentence-and-its-totally-legal\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>These Young Kids Are Facing A Death Sentence And It&#39;s Totally Legal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WH5suYWAw8\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is how corporate criminals profit from harming others. To make them stop and pay for the damage they have done, we must remove Republicans from office.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/02\/06\/distrust-of-fox-news-growing.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a>: <\/font>It&rsquo;s official: Fox is the most distrusted name in news.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why am I not surprised? Faux Noise is Republican infoganda, not news.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/49263362#50727028\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>: <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is Ashley the answer?<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc649425\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"592\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50727028^0^307407&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"launch=50727028^0^307407&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" height=\"346\" name=\"msnbc649425\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"592\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#39;m all for anyone who can make Bought Bitch Mitch join the unemployment line. An even bigger smile will follow, if the next Senate begins with a new Republican Minority Leader and a new Democratic Majority Leader.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7Cartoon\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7Cartoon.jpg\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"7Cartoon\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, research and blogging took almost ten hours and really tired me out.&nbsp; Today I am doing laundry while writing.&nbsp; Some things never change.&nbsp; I still HATE laundry. &nbsp; I&rsquo;m current with replies.&nbsp; I expect to be back tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&rsquo;s took me 3:59 (average 5:10).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/open-thread272013\/' 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-9934","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\/9934","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=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}