{"id":3602,"date":"2010-07-19T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2010-07-19T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:53:31","slug":"seepy-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/07\/19\/seepy-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Seepy Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know everybody is shocked to hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/18\/AR2010071800814.html\">all may not be well<\/a> (so to speak) with BP&#8217;s oil hole in the Gulf.  Apparently, there&#8217;s a bit of seepage (and I think we all know just how uncomfortable <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong> can be) and &#8220;undetermined anomalies&#8221; in the wellhead area.  Damn, I dunno what&#8217;s worse: seepage, or anomalies on your wellhead.  Though seepage in your wellhead area would indicate a trip to the clinic.  Especially if it&#8217;s an oily discharge.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, it appears that Obama has told his Vice President to ixnay on the whole ooptra awdowndray from Ghafanistanay.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/19\/biden-retreats-on-afghani_n_650706.html\">Joe Biden told the Goebbels network<\/a> yesterday that next summer&#8217;s troop reduction might just be a token few thousand. I, for one, am proud to see Obama show the steely resolve once exhibited by another strong Democratic leader &#8211; LBJ.  Though LBJ was a lot better at ramming his legislation through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty Belle is coming to town next weekend.  Not a bell, but the restored WWII-vintage B-17 bomber known as the &#8220;Flying Fortress.&#8221;  It&#8217;s probably most notable for the bubble on the bottom where the &#8220;belly gunner&#8221; sat (and was pretty much screwed if the landing gear didn&#8217;t work).  I&#8217;m familiar with them because when my dad was going through radio operator training during the war, he&#8217;d hoped to get the job of radio operator (whose other job was to man a .50 caliber machine gun) on one of these. Instead, he wound up slogging through China\/India\/Burma and getting bit by a monkey before contracting malaria.  He didn&#8217;t get shot, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of WWII, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/19\/autobahn-party-german-hig_n_650771.html\">those Krazy Krauts shut down a 37-mile stretch of their high-speed highway for a party yesterday<\/a> where, by all accounts, they had fun, fun, fun on the Autobahn.  Yeah, I know, the words are actually &#8220;Wir fahr&#8217;n fahr&#8217;n fahr&#8217;n auf der Autobahn,&#8221; which is kinda the opposite idea of sitting down at a 37-mile table, but, either way, it&#8217;s <strong><em>Ausgezeichnet!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not so excellent, however, is the fact that it&#8217;s Monday, and I gotta go to work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, as they say in Deutschland, &#8220;Gute Fahrt!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know everybody is shocked to hear that all may not be well (so to speak) with BP&#8217;s oil hole in the Gulf. Apparently, there&#8217;s a bit of seepage (and I think we all know just how uncomfortable that can be) and &#8220;undetermined anomalies&#8221; in the wellhead area. Damn, I dunno what&#8217;s worse: seepage, or [&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-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}