{"id":3007,"date":"2010-10-02T03:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2010-10-02T03:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T10:12:22","slug":"open-thread-1022010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/open-thread-1022010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 10\/2\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed.&#160; I did manage to cantc up back email, bit that\u2019s about all.&#160;&#160; I suspect that getting out today\u2019s articles will be my limit for today, as I am still quite ill.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:29.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-10-02-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Lefty Bloggers Plus<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don\u2019t forget to set your rosters for this weekend\u2019s games.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-governor-campaign-20101002,0,4952085.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Meg Whitman&#8217;s campaign for governor has doubled its advertising on Spanish-language radio and increased the number of its Latino television spots by roughly 50% as the former EBay chief executive seeks to blunt the impact of news that she employed, then fired, an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Similarly, the KKK is asking for African American support. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/01\/AR2010100107299.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>The United States revealed on Friday that the government conducted medical experiments in the 1940s in which doctors infected soldiers, prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How horrid.&#160; At the same time we were prosecuting German doctors at Nuremburg for doing the same thing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/10\/01\/odonnell-god-lame-duck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>In an interview with the conservative Christian Broadcasting Network, Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O\u2019Donnell suggested that the almighty has \u201cstrengthen[ed] and empower[ed]\u201d her campaign so that she can be around to filibuster during the lame duck session.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sadly, I think she may actually believe it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/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=\"2keefe\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2keefe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2keefe.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"377\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One month to go!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed.&#160; I did manage to cantc up back email, bit that\u2019s about all.&#160;&#160; I suspect that getting out today\u2019s articles will be my limit for today, as I am still quite ill. 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