{"id":1523,"date":"2010-05-17T03:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-05-17T03:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:26:43","slug":"open-thread-5172010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/open-thread-5172010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 5\/17\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I felt exhausted.  After posting my morning pieces, the only thing I accomplished yesterday was putting away my monthly grocery delivery.  Considering how little refrigerator, freezer and storage space I have here, making everything fit is a two hour task.  I\u2019m not complaining.  Too many do not have enough to eat.  I may be at the poverty line, but that\u2019s no excuse not to invite someone less fortunate than I to share an occasional meal.  I have comments to answer and visits to return.  Barring the unforeseen, I\u2019ll do that today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 3:53.  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 company engineers on Sunday finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude into a tanker ship after more than three weeks of failures. Millions of gallons of crude are already in the water, however, and researchers said the black ooze may have entered a major current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and around to the East Coast.<\/p>\n

The bad news outweighs the good.  Even if that stop 90% of the oil, a far more generous assumption that the best case possibilities, it\u2019s still as bad as BP\u2019s current lie says it is.  This could be a death sentence for all the life in the Keys.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

Yesterday I felt exhausted.  After posting my morning pieces, the only thing I accomplished yesterday was putting away my monthly grocery delivery.  Considering how little refrigerator, freezer and storage space I have here, making everything fit is a two hour task.  I\u2019m not complaining.  Too many do not have enough to eat.  I may be […]<\/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-1523","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\/1523","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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}