{"id":1869,"date":"2010-06-15T02:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2010-06-15T02:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:14:57","slug":"open-thread-6152010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/open-thread-6152010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 6\/15\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was pretty busy, but I still managed to stay up to date with replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I expect to do the same today, before a couple very busy days later this week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 6:06.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-06-15-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:\/\/rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/0614\/republican-suggests-mining-usmexico-border\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins emphasized that he does not advocate doing so.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If he doesn\u2019t mean it, then why is he inciting the rabid sheeple?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/leo-w-gerard\/greed-explains-the-disast_b_611239.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Middle class workers are the ones who die in coal mines and on oil rigs. <\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, CEOs say anything to save the bottom line &#8212; the one that will determine their bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is great wisdom here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/6\/14\/875886\/-LDS-Church-fined-for-failure-to-report-contributions-to-Prop-8\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has been fined by California&#8217;s Fair Political Practices Commission for failure to report nonmonetary contributions it made to the official campaign to pass Proposition 8 and outlaw marriage equality in California.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If the Church made contributions, monetary or otherwise, they violated the law that makes them tax exempt as part of the separation of church and state.&#160; All churches who do so should lose their tax-exempt states for all the years in which the violations took place.<\/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\/15matson.jpg\" 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=\"15matson\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15matson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/15matson_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What\u2019s news in your world today?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was pretty busy, but I still managed to stay up to date with replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I expect to do the same today, before a couple very busy days later this week. 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