{"id":2493,"date":"2010-08-08T01:19:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T08:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2010-08-08T01:19:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T08:19:52","slug":"open-thread-882010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/open-thread-882010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/8\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, the Blessed Beginnings of expectation. The Dallas Diocese and the Cincinnati Diocese will meet in Hall of Fame worship at 5 PM (Pacific) on NBC.&#160; I plan to try to catch a few Zs earlier in the day to observe the festivities.&#160; I\u2019m up to date with replying to comments, and returning visits, and I should stay that way.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 5:30.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-08-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\">If you would like to play in the Lefty Bloggers Plus league, sign into Fox Fantasy Football with any MSN ID.&#160; The League ID is 1023560.&#160; The Password is nogop<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are five spots left.<\/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\/08\/07\/98803\/schwarzenegger-let-gay-marriages.html\" target=\"_blank\">McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font>In a surprising court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state&#8217;s voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! I agree with a Republican!! \ud83d\ude2f<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2010\/08\/07\/fox_nation_readers_discuss_shooting_obama.php\" target=\"_blank\">News Hounds<\/a>: <\/font>Fox Nation posted about an amusement company pulling a shooting game because of complaints that the target looked like President Barack Obama and a slew of readers openly expressed desire for the real thing. Well, that and killing illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As much as Bush might have deserved it, only once during his Regime did a PP reader ever seriously suggest killing him.&#160; I did not delete the post, but in my reply, I chewed him a new asshole.&#160; Where are the moderators there?&#160; Evidently Fox News approves of this treason.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/oleoleolson\/2010\/08\/05\/massive-censorship-of-digg-uncovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I stopped posting at Digg long ago, because my articles never moved as they do on other sites.&#160; Now I know why.&#160; Despicable!<\/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\"><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=\"8bagley\" border=\"0\" alt=\"8bagley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/8bagley.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May the orb bless you. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, the Blessed Beginnings of expectation. 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