{"id":2802,"date":"2010-09-07T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2010-09-07T01:18:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T08:18:27","slug":"open-thread-972010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/open-thread-972010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 9\/7\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I caught up with replies and returning visits.&#160; I thought of making more visits, but used the time to put finish collecting the Constitution series and putting it in downloadable PDF format.&#160; I\u2019ll fall behind today, because I have a routine doctor appointment with three hours travel time. Tomorrow will be just as busy, because of my volunteer work.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:58.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-09-07-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.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gCSIX9NkhdOVIS2hgIkyoea-3JwA\" target=\"_blank\">AFP\/Google<\/a>: <\/font>The US commander of the Afghan war has warned that troops&#8217; lives will be endangered if a Florida evangelical church goes ahead with a planned burning of the Koran on Saturday&#8217;s 9\/11 anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>General David Petraeus said the planned torching of Islam&#8217;s holy book would be a propaganda coup for the Taliban in Afghanistan and stoke anti-US sentiment across the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I would hope that these Republicans will have the decency to listen to the right\u2019s favorite warrior and refrain from jeopardizing our troops and threatening our nation\u2019s security by this planned demonstration of Republican bigotry.&#160; Sadly, it would surprise me if they did.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/05\/AR2010090501144.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Struggling to contain an escalating crisis at Kabul Bank, Afghan authorities have barred the sale of Kabul properties held by the bank&#8217;s principal owners. <\/p>\n<p>But the freeze excludes President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s brother, Kabul Bank&#8217;s third largest shareholder.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is another example of why we can\u2019t win there, because we are tied to the Bush appointed puppet.<\/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=\"7fitzsimmons\" border=\"0\" alt=\"7fitzsimmons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/7fitzsimmons.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"427\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM on Tuesday!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I caught up with replies and returning visits.&#160; I thought of making more visits, but used the time to put finish collecting the Constitution series and putting it in downloadable PDF format.&#160; I\u2019ll fall behind today, because I have a routine doctor appointment with three hours travel time. Tomorrow will be just as busy, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/open-thread-972010\/' 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-2802","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\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}