{"id":331,"date":"2006-08-22T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2006-08-22T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T09:00:23","slug":"tuesday-open-thread-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/08\/22\/tuesday-open-thread-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, poor old George Allen seems to have lost the huge lead he once had on James Webb &#8211; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusatv9.com\/news\/news_article.aspx?storyid=51530\">down to just three points, 48% &#8211; 45%<\/a>. I don&#8217;t understand &#8211; he seems like such a nice guy.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s all the fault of that nasty old news media, misquoting Allen and all.\u00a0 Hopefully Ned Lamont can pick up a few points, too.<\/p>\n<p>I see that the NHTSA is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/AUTOS\/08\/21\/event_data_recorder_rule\/index.html\">requiring that car manufacturers tell you<\/a> if you&#8217;ve got one of those Event Data Recorders (aka, Black Box) installed in your car (hint, if you buy a new car, you probably do) by 2011.\u00a0 You not only have to pay for these things, but they&#8217;re next to impossible to turn off, and you don&#8217;t even own the data that they collect if you&#8217;re in a crash (and of course, who&#8217;s to say how accurate the goddman things are).\u00a0 Well, just shut up and deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/08\/21\/bush.political\/index.html\">president dummy says that anybody who thinks we ought to pull out of Iraq<\/a> &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">shows a lack of understanding of world politics<\/span>.&#8221; Must be true, &#8216;cuz Joe Lieberman told him so.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, poor old George Allen seems to have lost the huge lead he once had on James Webb &#8211; it&#8217;s down to just three points, 48% &#8211; 45%. I don&#8217;t understand &#8211; he seems like such a nice guy.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s all the fault of that nasty old news media, misquoting Allen and all.\u00a0 [&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-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}