{"id":2273,"date":"2010-07-17T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2010-07-17T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T08:38:16","slug":"open-thread-7172010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/17\/open-thread-7172010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 7\/17\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I caught up on replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; It feels good to be up to date again.&#160; I should have no trouble keeping up today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig-Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today this handsome puzzle took me 3:05.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-07-17-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\">.&#160; We still need 5 more players to keep our league.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/236263\/successor_named_for_late_long-serving_us_senator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Democratic Governor Joe Manchin named former counsel Carte Goodwin, 36, to fill Byrd&#8217;s seat pending a special election in November.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin will take office Tuesday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Welcome Mr. Goodwin.&#160; Your presence is needed desperately.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/07\/16-1\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken, according to the US government&#8217;s climate data centre.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even though some places are cooler than normal, tracking global averages shows a clear upward trend.&#160; In spite of that, Republicans oppose energy legislation.&#160; And sadly\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=D8489B51-18FE-70B2-A862DB6E6D13A884\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska said Thursday he would not support a procedural vote later this month to begin debate on a climate bill that includes a cap on electric utility emissions, a declaration that underscores the tough climb that Majority Leader Harry Reid will have in trying to cobble together a 60-vote supermajority on the controversial issue.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need to rename him Ulysses Nelson, so we can call him Useless for short.<\/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\/17matson.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=\"17matson\" border=\"0\" alt=\"17matson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/17matson_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How\u2019s your weekend?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I caught up on replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; It feels good to be up to date again.&#160; I should have no trouble keeping up today. 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