{"id":2883,"date":"2010-09-15T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2010-09-15T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:40:15","slug":"open-thread-9152010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/open-thread-9152010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 9\/15\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I overslept and had a lot to do, but I still kept up with comments and returned visits.&#160; I won\u2019t be back to the blog until tomorrow, because today is my volunteer day with the therapy group, and I have errands afterwards.&#160; Primaries dominated the news.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:23.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-09-15-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.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/283183\/us_may_file_civil_complaint_against_bp_over_gulf_spill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The US government has said in a Louisiana court it is considering filing a civil complaint against BP under the Clean Water Act to claim 1,100 dollars for each barrel of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>If the US administration can prove BP engaged in gross negligence or willful misconduct leading up to the spill, the cost of each barrel spilled is tripled to 4,300 dollars.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The math seems a bit off here, because $1,100 X 3 = $3,300, not $4,300.&#160; Nevertheless, it will be a pants-load of money.&#160; For what are they waiting?<\/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=\"15beeler\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15beeler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/15beeler.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"409\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy hump day!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I overslept and had a lot to do, but I still kept up with comments and returned visits.&#160; I won\u2019t be back to the blog until tomorrow, because today is my volunteer day with the therapy group, and I have errands afterwards.&#160; Primaries dominated the news. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:23.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/open-thread-9152010\/' 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-2883","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\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}