{"id":2256,"date":"2010-07-16T02:04:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2010-07-16T02:04:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T09:04:45","slug":"open-thread-7162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/open-thread-7162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 7\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday preparing an article and other activities for my volunteer work added to medical appointments took up the bulk of my time.&#160; Nevertheless, I did keep up with comments.&#160; Today I plan to attack a big backlog of visits to return.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:47.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-07-16-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\">With left than a month before the draft, we\u2019re stalled at six players out of twelve needed.&#160; Unless we get the other six, our league will be cancelled, so we are desperate for more.&#160; 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:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2010\/07\/court_strikes_challenge_to_dc_gay_marriage_law.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>: <\/font>D.C.&#8217;s highest court has ruled against opponents of the city&#8217;s same-sex marriage law, saying they cannot ask voters to overturn it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There\u2019s good news for the voices of sanity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/07\/15-7\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>BP engineers on Thursday stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April as they shut all valves on a new cap placed on top of a fractured wellhead, a BP official said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although we\u2019re still in the testing phase, this is encouraging.&#160; Pray that the rest of the plumbing doesn\u2019t leak and that the relief well, now 37 feet away successfully bottom fills the GOP gusher.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/14\/reid-unemployment-benefit_n_646252.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that the Senate would vote move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits on Tuesday morning, after the replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has been sworn in.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is it about time or what?<\/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\/07\/16wolverton.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"16wolverton\" border=\"0\" alt=\"16wolverton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/16wolverton_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday preparing an article and other activities for my volunteer work added to medical appointments took up the bulk of my time.&#160; Nevertheless, I did keep up with comments.&#160; Today I plan to attack a big backlog of visits to return. 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