{"id":1857,"date":"2010-06-14T01:41:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2010-06-14T01:41:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:41:04","slug":"open-thread-6142010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/open-thread-6142010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 6\/14\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I felt tired, so after catching up with comments, I rested.&#160; Today I have errands to run, but hope to catch up anyway.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:35.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-06-14-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Fantasy Football<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To join our fantasy football league,<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/?p=1647\">click here<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/natural_resources\/article7149696.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times Online<\/a>: <\/font>Afghanistan has nearly $US1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, far more than previously thought and enough to turn a country devastated by decades of war into one of the most important mining centres in the world, according to senior US officials. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">With such great wealth at stake, Bush\u2019s dog, Hamid Karzai, will have no incentive to reform.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2010\/06\/13\/fair_and_balanced_neil_cavuto_wants_guest_to_just_shut_up_about_halting_bp_advertising_and_dividends.php\" target=\"_blank\">News Hounds<\/a>: <\/font>Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT) appeared on Your World Wednesday (6\/9\/10) to discuss Democratic demands that BP stop advertising and suspend its dividend in order to conserve funds for the oil cleanup bills. Cavuto didn\u2019t just challenge the idea, he acted as though the money was coming right out of his pocket. He pugnaciously interrupted and even shouted at Welch, who remained polite throughout the segment. Cavuto ended the &quot;discussion&quot; with a decidedly unfriendly, \u201cWe\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><em>Faux Noise<\/em> demonstrated its fairness and balance here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dk-matai\/japan-takes-lead-in-wirel_b_610344.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>In the footsteps of Nikola Tesla, Japan intends to send its first solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam Gigawatt-strong streams of power down to earth, each enough to power nearly 300,000 homes eco-efficiently. A Gigawatt is what a mid-size nuclear power station produces.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don\u2019t you feel furious that, while other nations are forging ahead to develop clean energy for the 21st century, here in the US we\u2019re still squabbling ocer oil and coal.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/14darkow.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; width: 550px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"14darkow\" border=\"0\" alt=\"14darkow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/14darkow_thumb.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I felt tired, so after catching up with comments, I rested.&#160; Today I have errands to run, but hope to catch up anyway. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:35.&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Fantasy Football: To join our fantasy football league, click here. Short Takes: From Times <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/open-thread-6142010\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","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\/1857","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=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}