{"id":1400,"date":"2009-05-29T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-05-29T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T11:01:31","slug":"happy-bday-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/05\/29\/happy-bday-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy B&#8217;day, Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of hard to believe, but Texas Republican (and all-around douchebag) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/28\/john-cornyn-repudiates-gi_n_208915.html\">John Cornyn has repudiated the attacks on Sonia Sotomayor by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich<\/a>.  I guess the fact that there are an awful lot of Hispanics in Texas must not be lost on the good Senator.  Let&#8217;s just hope the rest of the Republicans remain oblivious.  They&#8217;re the party of angry white guys, and I think they ought to just run with that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/05\/28\/bush-the-information-we-got-saved-lives\/\">Dubya emerged from Dick Cheney&#8217;s bunker<\/a> (I wonder if that means the Dickster will be going back into seclusion) to defend the use of torture, claiming it &#8220;saved lives&#8221; in a speech before 2,500 members the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan (in other words, all the people in Michigan that still have jobs).  Bush even earned a standing ovation when asked what he&#8217;d like his legacy to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, I hope it is this: The man showed up with a set of principles, and he was unwilling to compromise his soul for the sake of popularity,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, OK.  Principles, yeah. When I think about Bush, &#8220;principles&#8221; is the first thing that come to mind. Now, tell us about the rabbits again, George.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about where you guys are at, but here they&#8217;re still giving us daily updates on the Swine Flu cases in the county.  We&#8217;re up to <strong>18<\/strong> now! :omg:  It&#8217;s gonna be a long, long winter if they&#8217;re gonna report every time some kid gets the flu around here.  <\/p>\n<p>Today is Bob Hope&#8217;s birthday.  Seeing as he was 100 when he died, he&#8217;d be <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> old today &#8211; 106, in fact.  The other big birthday today, of course, is JFK.  He&#8217;d be 92 today, if he was still around (though if he hadn&#8217;t been shot, he probably wouldn&#8217;t have lived much longer anyway).<\/p>\n<p>Time to head on out.  I Can&#8217;t wait to get this week over with, personally.  I tweaked my neck somehow the other day, making it painful to sit and type, since I have to look at the keyboard (which sucks when you sit an type for a living), and damn near impossible to look to the left (which makes driving a little on the hazardous side).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4SLSlSmW74&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k4SLSlSmW74&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of hard to believe, but Texas Republican (and all-around douchebag) John Cornyn has repudiated the attacks on Sonia Sotomayor by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. I guess the fact that there are an awful lot of Hispanics in Texas must not be lost on the good Senator. Let&#8217;s just hope the rest [&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-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","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=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}