{"id":2933,"date":"2010-09-20T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2010-09-20T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:40:16","slug":"open-thread-9202010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/open-thread-9202010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/20\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a day of religious meditation (NFL).  I hope to catch up on comments and returning visits today, but I have a lot of chores to do.<\/font><\/p>\n

Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"DenWeek2\" <\/font><\/p>\n

Phew!  Losing to the Seachickens requires self-flagellation as penance.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 4:02.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Boston Globe<\/a>: <\/font>BP\u2019s blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been killed, five months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in US history.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all over, except a generation or more of environmental degradation. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n

From UKPA\/Google<\/a>: <\/font>Afghan election observers have raised serious concerns about the weekend parliamentary elections because of reported fraud.<\/p>\n

But President Hamid Karzai commended the balloting as a solid success.<\/p>\n

My money is on the former.<\/font><\/p>\n

From TPM<\/a>: <\/font>Newt Gingrich got a lot of deserved grief last week for his race-baiting rant about President Obama’s "anti-colonial Kenyan" world view. I’m sure he’ll get much less for his call this weekend for federal legislation banning the imposition of Sharia Law in the United States.<\/p>\n

The Newtered One has hit a new low for the manufacture whacky-doodle-do distractions over non-issues.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>: from Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

\"20wolverton\" <\/font><\/p>\n

OGIM!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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