{"id":2289,"date":"2010-07-18T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2010-07-18T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:01:11","slug":"open-thread-7182010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/open-thread-7182010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 7\/18\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I replied to comments, returned visits, and visited several additional locations.&#160; I expect to stay up to date today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:59.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-07-18-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:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2010\/07\/17\/97711\/bp-says-cap-still-holding-oil.html\" target=\"_blank\">McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font>The new cap plugging the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico was holding up on Saturday but BP officials still weren&#8217;t sure if and when they would begin siphoning oil to containment ships on the surface. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I heard on the news last night that they will start siphoning oil today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/news\/now-rbs-lines-up-to-sue-goldman-over-bond-fraud-2028726.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a>: <\/font>Royal Bank of Scotland could be poised to sue Goldman Sachs for hundreds of millions of dollars after the American investment bank paid out $550m (\u00a3358m) to settle fraud charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. <\/p>\n<p>Goldman neither admitted nor denied the SEC&#8217;s charges. However, as part of the settlement it did admit that it should have told investors in a controversial mortgage derivative known as Abacus that a hedge fund client which helped with the portfolio was betting on it failing. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Go RBS!!&#160; Put a kilt over Blankfein\u2019s head and bash him with bagpipes!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/teaparty\/147576\/why_won't_sarah_palin_and_tea_party_leaders_condemn_racism_in_their_midst\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Instead of saying racism is unacceptable in their movement, Palin and Tea Party leaders pretend the NAACP called them all racists.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That\u2019s a lie, of course.&#160; The GOP and their brownshirts refuse to condemn Teabagger racism, because that would alienate a significant portion, although not all, of their base.<\/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\/18matson.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=\"18matson\" border=\"0\" alt=\"18matson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/18matson_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Be blessed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I replied to comments, returned visits, and visited several additional locations.&#160; I expect to stay up to date today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:59.&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Fantasy Football: To join our fantasy football league, click here. Short Takes: From McClatchy DC: The new cap <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/open-thread-7182010\/' 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-2289","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\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}