{"id":2621,"date":"2010-08-21T02:29:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T09:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2010-08-21T02:29:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T09:29:04","slug":"open-thread-8212010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/open-thread-8212010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/21\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I oopsed!&#160; I spent a longer time at the grocery store than I intended and bought more.&#160; The result was that I was carrying a heavier load than normal, and my oxygen bottle ran out just before I returned home.&#160; Lugging a heavy load up a double flight of stairs was no fun.&#160; I was wheezing so hard, I feared I might cough up my own butt.&#160; After some recovery time, I attached the huge backlog of comments and replied to all.&#160; Today my plan is to visit the blogroll.&#160; The only other major item I have on tap is to play with a software utility I agreed to review here in return for a free copy of the software.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:04.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-21-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9HNEUKG0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Business Week<\/a>: <\/font>Continued weakness in housing construction sent the Oregon timber harvest to near historic lows last year, the state Department of Forestry said Friday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The timber industry is huge in Oregon, so the GW Bushwhacking of the housing market is one of the principal reasons our unemployment is a point above the national average.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/268507\/firm_formerly_known_as_blackwater_to_pay_huge_fine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Xe, the private security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, has agreed to pay a 42 million dollar fine for violating US export regulations. [weapons smuggling]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s chump change.&#160; This represents less that 5% of annual revenues.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/8\/20\/894879\/-AR-Sen:-No-Cook,-its-not-a-toss-up\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Rasmussen, Arkansas Senate, 500 LVs, 8\/18 (July numbers)<\/p>\n<p>Boozman: 65% (60%) <\/p>\n<p>Lincoln: 27% (35%)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rasmussen polls are notoriously skewed right, but even they couldn\u2019t produce results like this.&#160; My prediction that it would cost us the seat, if Backroom Blanch, DINO extraordinaire, won the primary, is proving correct.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: homegrown today<\/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=\"21cartoon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"21cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/21cartoon.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"577\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Enjoy your weekend!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I oopsed!&#160; I spent a longer time at the grocery store than I intended and bought more.&#160; The result was that I was carrying a heavier load than normal, and my oxygen bottle ran out just before I returned home.&#160; Lugging a heavy load up a double flight of stairs was no fun.&#160; I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/open-thread-8212010\/' 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":[141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-politics","category-141-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}