{"id":3474,"date":"2010-06-23T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T10:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2010-06-23T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T10:57:22","slug":"wednesday-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/06\/23\/wednesday-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cheery little story from my neck of the woods yesterday<\/a>. NY State Troopers responded to a 911 call from a house (OK, well, a trailer) in the Town of Vienna (which is about 20 miles north of Wampsville, in case you were wondering). There, they found some 21-yr old kid named Adam Theall holding his 3-month old son (with another 1-yr old son inside) and a shotgun, threatening to kill the kid if the police responded. When the troopers got out of their vehicle, guess what? He killed the kid. I’m not sure what’s left of a three month old baby when you shoot him with a shotgun, but I reckon it aint much. I hope to never find out for myself. <\/p>\n

Anyhow, then Theall turned the gun on the Troopers, who, not surprisingly, shot the bastard (though they didn’t manage to kill him). He was airlifted to the hospital I work for (doesn’t seem worth the expense, what with our budget woes here in NY), where he’s in critical condition. <\/p>\n

Maybe he’ll find Jesus in prison.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the budget, our Governor says Monday is the deadline<\/a> for the legislature to have a budget in place, or he’ll use the next emergency spending bill to impose one. Governor Paterson stated:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe somebody thinks I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m playing around. Maybe someone thinks this is a game. … But let me just say: That budget is going to get passed Monday.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a sign of just how much respect the Guv gets (here’s a hint; it’s about as much as Stanley McChrstal has for both the President and Vice President of the United States) – not just from the legislature, but even from within his own party – Manhattan Democrat and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver responded with:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is no deadline. April 1 was the deadline.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lest you think we have a bunch of do-nothing slackers running the State, I feel obliged to point out a spectacular bipartisan legislative success. <\/p>\n

The state Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to ban using embalming fluid as a recreational drug.<\/p>\n

By a 61-0 vote, senators voted to make it a misdemeanor to possess embalming with the intent to inhale it, ingest it or sell it to someone to do so.
\n[…]
\nEmbalming fluid is combined with the hallucinogen phencyclidine, also known as PCP, and used to coat marijuana cigarettes….<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Took a lot of guts, but they managed to ram that one through.<\/p>\n

Speaking of ramming through, it’s time for me to get ready to try and ram myself through another day. It’s getting harder and harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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