{"id":1571,"date":"2009-09-15T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2009-09-15T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:33:43","slug":"primary-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/09\/15\/primary-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Primary Day here in New York (and perhaps other places, too; not really up on my off-off-year election politics). Where I live, I don’t think there’s actually anything to vote for (or against). There is<\/em><\/strong> a primary to replace the mayor of Syracuse (who is term-limited), but I live out in the ‘burbs (yeah, I know, you thought Syracuse was<\/em><\/strong> the ‘burbs), and so I can’t vote in that one. It’s definitely a rainbow slate of candidates, with the Democrats choosing between a white woman, a black man, an Italian guy, and another guy who probably has no chance of winning, but is who I’d vote for ‘cuz he’s been a community activist and has as part of his platform a promise to create dog parks. The Republican field is a bit smaller, with the choice between a black guy and an Armenian (a “business man” who apparently has enough money to put a lot of commercials on the air). Despite the Armenian guy’s advertising advantage (or maybe because<\/em><\/strong> of it; this guy is booooooring), the other guy is the favorite. <\/p>\n

In the long run, I’m hoping that the woman – a longtime common councilor named Stephanie Miner – wins both the primary and the election. That would give Syracuse a woman as mayor at the same time that Onondaga County has a female (unfortunately, a Republican one) County Executive. <\/p>\n

Looks like SC cracker congresscreep Joe Wilson is a serial liar (shocking, I know). Not only did he lie when he called Obama a liar and when he insisted that whatever crappy bill it is that’s in the works for health care “reform” (which is really turning out to be insurance reform, and not very good reform at that) would give illegal immigrants public health care, but it appears he also lied about being an immigration attorney<\/a>. Oh the shame.<\/p>\n

President Obama apparently called Kanye West a jackass<\/a> for, well, acting like a jackass. It was an off-the-record statement that Goebbels network propagandist Terry Moran tweeted or twittered or twatted or whatever the kids are calling it these days. Moran wrote:<\/p>\n

“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, is Terry trying to say that calling a jackass a jackass is unworthy of the office? Excuse me for not being very Presidential, Terry, but you’re a putz.<\/p>\n

I reckon everybody’s heard that Patrick Swayze has passed away. A shame, but, well, when they tell you you have pancreatic cancer, your number is pretty much up. Your real choice at that point is whether to keep shoving dollar bills into the g-string of the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex in order to prolong a miserable existence while they tease you 5-year survival statistics and vague hints of remission, or to just say “fuck it; bring me happy drugs – lots and lots of happy drugs. And pot.” Swayze chose the former, but I think I’d opt for the happy drugs. One never knows until the time comes (and hopefully it never will).<\/p>\n

The time for going to work has come, however, so I guess I better get a move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Primary Day here in New York (and perhaps other places, too; not really up on my off-off-year election politics). Where I live, I don’t think there’s actually anything to vote for (or against). There is a primary to replace the mayor of Syracuse (who is term-limited), but I live out in the ‘burbs (yeah, […]<\/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-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}