{"id":1515,"date":"2010-05-16T01:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T08:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2010-05-16T01:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T08:39:15","slug":"open-thread-5162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/16\/open-thread-5162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 5\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I caught up on replying to comments and returning visits.  Today, I don\u2019t know because I had a bad air night, could not stop coughing and did not sleep.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 5:35.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From Bay Area Ledger<\/a>: <\/font>Oil leaking from a ruptured well pipe in the Gulf of Mexico washed ashore in two new locations on Saturday, the Coast Guard said, as the latest attempt to contain the spill faltered.<\/p>\n

Efforts to siphon leaking oil via an "insertion tube" up to a container vessel continued a day after US President Barack Obama blasted oil companies for seeking to shift blame for a growing oil slick threatening environmental disaster.<\/p>\n

So much for the Top Hat.  Next, the junk shot.  It that fails, BP may try to plug the leak with a giant Tampon. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Yawn!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I caught up on replying to comments and returning visits.  Today, I don\u2019t know because I had a bad air night, could not stop coughing and did not sleep. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 5:35.  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Take: From Bay Area Ledger: Oil leaking […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}