{"id":2700,"date":"2010-08-29T02:31:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2010-08-29T02:31:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T09:31:19","slug":"open-thread-8292010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/open-thread-8292010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/29\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I slept later than normal, and after doing some printer repair, I spent around four hours replying to around one hundred comments.&#160; My apologies for falling so far behind.&#160; I only returned one visit, because Sky Girl hinted that she\u2019d like me to reply to a conservative at her place, which I did.&#160; You can find the link in yesterday\u2019s piece about the AFA.&#160; Her article is worth the read, as is, I hope my comment.&#160; Today I have lots of visits to return, and I hope to get to most, although I\u2019m still pretty worn out.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:02.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/politicaljunkie\/2010\/08\/28\/129502022\/no-surprises-in-louisiana-west-virginia-senate-primaries\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. David Vitter, the first Republican elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, easily won renomination to a second term and, expected, his Democratic opponent in November will be Rep. Charlie Melancon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a special primary necessitated by the death of longtime Sen. Robert Byrd (D), Gov. Joe Manchin easily won the Democratic primary and is favored to hold the seat for the party in November.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No Surprises there.<\/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=\"29fitzsimmons\" border=\"0\" alt=\"29fitzsimmons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/29fitzsimmons.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Have a great Sunday!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I slept later than normal, and after doing some printer repair, I spent around four hours replying to around one hundred comments.&#160; My apologies for falling so far behind.&#160; I only returned one visit, because Sky Girl hinted that she\u2019d like me to reply to a conservative at her place, which I did.&#160; You <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/open-thread-8292010\/' 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-2700","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\/2700","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=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}