{"id":2147,"date":"2010-07-05T02:16:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2010-07-05T02:16:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T09:16:04","slug":"open-thread-752010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/open-thread-752010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/5\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I managed to keep up to date with replying to comments and returning visits in addition to visiting a few more blogs.  I cooked a spicy stir-fry for the fourth and shared it with a less fortunate neighbor.  I must have been quite tired, because I fell asleep (without my CPAP torture device) early and slept right through the fireworks show seven blocks away.  Today I have some volunteer work catch-up to do, but should at least stay current.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:06.  To do it, click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Take<\/strong>: (It\u2019s a slow day for news.)<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower its U.S. corporate tax rate by almost 15 points. And due to a break in the U.S. tax code, BP was also allowed to write off the rent it paid to Transocean on its own tax bill, saving it hundreds of thousands of dollars per day.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the oil criminals.  The amount we spend in corporate welfare swamps the so-callen entitlements.  To even talk about cutting entitlements, before all socialism for the rich is eliminated is obscene.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: from Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

\"5bagley\"<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an OGIM Monday!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I managed to keep up to date with replying to comments and returning visits in addition to visiting a few more blogs.  I cooked a spicy stir-fry for the fourth and shared it with a less fortunate neighbor.  I must have been quite tired, because I fell asleep (without my CPAP torture device) early […]<\/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-2147","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\/2147","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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}