{"id":2893,"date":"2010-09-16T01:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2010-09-16T01:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:26:35","slug":"open-thread-9162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/open-thread-9162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 9\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I co-facilitated a therapy group for former prisoners and ran errands afterwards, so I was not here to reply to comments or return visits.&#160; Today looks pretty busy, but I hope to start catching up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:21&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-09-16-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.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-09-16\/cash-throwdown-helps-ex-wrestling-ceo-mcmahon-in-connecticut-senate-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>More than $21 million into her campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut, Republican Linda McMahon outspent Democrat Richard Blumenthal 16-to-1 through the year\u2019s first half and narrowed his lead to 6 percentage points in a new poll.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is why we need publicly financed elections.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0916-whitman-20100916,0,906976.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Smashing the record for the most money ever donated by a candidate in a political election, Republican Meg Whitman has written her gubernatorial campaign a $15-million check that brings her personal stake in the race to $119 million.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is why we need publicly financed elections.<\/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=\"16beeler\" border=\"0\" alt=\"16beeler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/16beeler.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"409\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dy out have an interesting local race?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I co-facilitated a therapy group for former prisoners and ran errands afterwards, so I was not here to reply to comments or return visits.&#160; Today looks pretty busy, but I hope to start catching up. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:21&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/open-thread-9162010\/' 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-2893","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\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}