{"id":1318,"date":"2009-03-09T06:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T10:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-03-09T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:54:41","slug":"march-wetness-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/03\/09\/march-wetness-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March Wetness Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a churchgoer (other than weddings and funerals, I haven&#8217;t been since I was a kid), and I reckon that&#8217;s a good thing, &#8216;cuz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/08\/illinois-church-shooting_n_172858.html\">church seems to be a pretty dangerous place these days<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t know what this guy&#8217;s story is, but I can&#8217;t help but think it&#8217;s all part of the hatred fomented by the Limpricks and savage Weiners (not to mention the Falwells and Pat Roberts) out there.  &#8220;As ye sow, so shall ye reap.&#8221;  Hey, I guess I actually <strong><em>did<\/em><\/strong> get a little something out of church, after all.  Too bad so few of the Kristians out there don&#8217;t seem to have been paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>So, looks like the octomom is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/07\/victor-munoz-nadya-sulema_n_172812.html\">shopping her birth tape around for seven figures<\/a> (I know this, because it the single most important thing going on in the world).  Really?  Somebody would pay to see that?  You&#8217;d have to pay <strong><em>me<\/em><\/strong> to watch that.  If that&#8217;s something you want to see, just turn on Animal Planet and sooner or later you&#8217;ll find a Great Dane or something giving birth to a litter of pups.  Same thrill, I would think (and a lot cheaper).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnycentral.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=270282\">&#8220;Save Rocky, the Snakehead Fish&#8221; t-shirts will be available soon<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ll keep Rocky out of the frying pan, but Rocky&#8217;s dad says the money will be going to benefit animal rescue groups.  I see no reason why the DEC feels compelled to execute a ten  year old pet fish that lives in a 200 gallon aquarium.  Certainly, they could look the other way or give him a special permit or something.  This is the same DEC, you may recall, that tranquilized a poor harmless little black bear to death last May.  Bastids.<\/p>\n<p>Friend-o-swift boaters T. Boone Pickens (who also worked to get Bush selected over Al Gore, and who admitted to voting for John McCain and the &#8220;Drill Baby, Drill&#8221; party on Bill Maher this week) says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/t-boone-pickens\/its-not-about-political-p_b_172500.html\">it&#8217;s not about Political Parties<\/a>.  Glad to hear it, Boonie, and, while I&#8217;m on board with the whole wind thing, I have to say &#8220;fuck you very much&#8221; for eight years of Bush &#8211; that, thank goodness, didn&#8217;t turn into 8 &#8211; 16 years of McCain\/Palin.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of rain around here over the weekend.  Walking on it, the ground feels as though you&#8217;re walking around on a big wet sponge, and there&#8217;s lots of flooding all over the place.  If it would stay in the 50&#8217;s, I wouldn&#8217;t mind so much, but 38 degrees and rain just plain sucks.  I&#8217;d rather have snow.  Especially since I just ordered new Gore-Tex<sup>&reg;<\/sup> gloves and an Elmer Fudd (or maybe Floyd R. Turbo) hat.  By the time they get here, it&#8217;ll be too warm to wera &#8217;em.  Now I&#8217;ll have to try not to lose them before next winter.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, time to be a happy idiot, and struggle for the legal tender.  Have a happy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a churchgoer (other than weddings and funerals, I haven&#8217;t been since I was a kid), and I reckon that&#8217;s a good thing, &#8216;cuz church seems to be a pretty dangerous place these days. I don&#8217;t know what this guy&#8217;s story is, but I can&#8217;t help but think it&#8217;s all part of the hatred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}