{"id":3120,"date":"2010-10-16T04:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2010-10-16T04:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T11:22:53","slug":"open-thread-10162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/open-thread-10162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 10\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"16tc\" border=\"0\" alt=\"16tc\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/16tc.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"290\" \/> For the first time in over a week I actually got out and returned some visits, yesterday.&#160; It felt great, and I hope I can can continue it today.&#160; I am a little tired, because I waited all day for the medical supply company to call and reschedule.&#160; They have it marked in bold on my records that 4:00 PM is my bedtime and not to call me after that.&#160; Of course they called at 4:45 and woke me up, so I\u2019m a bit bleary eyed, as my new camera should reveal.&#160; So we\u2019ll see how the day goes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:40.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-10-16-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\">Players, remember to set your lineups for this weeks games.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/10\/15\/MNJS1FTFKC.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: <\/font>The Obama administration has denounced Proposition 19, which would legalize personal use of marijuana in California, and promises to &quot;vigorously enforce&quot; the federal ban on possessing, growing or selling the drug if voters approve the ballot measure Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a bad move on Holder\u2019s part.&#160; The US has no compelling interest in chasing potheads and could use their resources far better going after insider trading, financial scamming, civil and human rights violations, and most of all Bush, Cheney, etc., for war crimes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/16\/world\/middleeast\/16mideast.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Israel ended an unofficial construction freeze in Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem on Friday, announcing plans to build 238 housing units. The move comes as hard-won peace talks are stalled over the question of whether Israel will extend its broader construction moratorium in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This confirms that the Netanyahu government values local extremists more than keeping their treaty commitment to a two state solution.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/humanist-in-portland\/christine-o-donnell-s-christian-hypocrisy-abstinence-advocate-s-secret-sex-life\" target=\"_blank\">The Portland Examiner<\/a>: <\/font>Numerous neighbors are confirming that O&#8217;Donnell, Delaware&#8217;s Republican candidate for US Senate, had frequent overnight visits from her boyfriend, with one neighbor complaining about the loud volume of O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s amorous encounters penetrating the thin walls.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is O\u2019Dingbat\u2019s sex life her own business?&#160; You betcha!&#160; However, when she brings everyone else\u2019s bedroom into the political arena, hers becomes fair game. She\u2019s just another pseudo-Christian Republican hypocrite.<\/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=\"16bagley\" border=\"0\" alt=\"16bagley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/16bagley.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"435\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What are you up to today?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in over a week I actually got out and returned some visits, yesterday.&#160; It felt great, and I hope I can can continue it today.&#160; I am a little tired, because I waited all day for the medical supply company to call and reschedule.&#160; They have it marked in bold on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/open-thread-10162010\/' 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-3120","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\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}