{"id":2529,"date":"2010-08-11T02:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2010-08-11T02:26:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:26:29","slug":"open-thread-8112010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/open-thread-8112010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/11\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, I caught up with replying to comments and returned visits.&#160; Today I shall fall behind, because I\u2019m co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners.&#160; Hopefully, I can catch up tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:27.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-11-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\">I learned yesterday that I can reduce the number of teams in the league, so I cut it down to ten.&#160; Unless a couple more join by Friday morning, I\u2019ll reduce it to eight.&#160; We\u2019ll definitely be able to play.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1118399420100811\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/font>In Colorado, Bennet beat liberal former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff to dodge a wave of anti-Washington anger that buried two Senate colleagues earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had hoped Romanoff would win, but we should hold the seat, because a Teabagger won on the Republican side.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/258618\/us_senate_legend_stevens_killed_in_alaska_plane_crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was among five fatalities after a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Unlike most of the MSM, I\u2019m not going to pretend that he wasn\u2019t one of the most corrupt Republicans in Senate history.<\/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=\"11keefe\" border=\"0\" alt=\"11keefe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/11keefe.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I caught up with replying to comments and returned visits.&#160; Today I shall fall behind, because I\u2019m co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners.&#160; Hopefully, I can catch up tomorrow. 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