{"id":7015,"date":"2012-03-04T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2012-03-04T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T15:23:10","slug":"sunday-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/03\/04\/sunday-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor Rush. Here he goes and “apologizes” for his “poor choice of words” in spewing the same shit he’s always spewing, and people don’t think he’s sincere<\/a>. I feel about as bad for him as I do for the dearly departed Andrew Dimbart. Hopefully the two of them will be getting together real soon to commiserate. Hurry up, Rush. Satan and Saddam are waiting for you.<\/p>\n

Winter has returned today. Just a few minutes ago, in fact. This morning, everything was green and a flock of seagulls flew over while I was out in the back yard (which is pretty odd, because I’m not exactly near the sea. The nearest lake is about 5 miles away as the gull flies, and these guys were flying from the northeast, which is even farther from water). Now, it’s a winter wonderland out there. <\/p>\n

I heard a story on NPR yesterday about Colorado Springs, where they turned down a tax increase, and they had to slash all kinds of budgets and services. One politician said that a taxpayer came up and thanked her for the “adopt a streetlight” campaign. He and his neighbors chipped in $300 each to turn on the light in their neighborhood. She reminded him that if they’d approved a tax increase of $200, they could have had the streetlights plus parks, roads, etc. But he said, “oh, no. No way I’d vote for a tax increase.”<\/p>\n

People are dumb.<\/p>\n

The also talked to another guy who worked for the parks department and got laid off. They turned his job over to a private company which hired him to do the same job he was doing before. He went from $42,000 to $36,000, and they figure that with benefits, he costs about $12,000 less now than he did before. But, of course, the company he works for doesn’t do the work for free. So they asked the city if they were actually saving any money. They couldn’t say, but they said they “might” save money in the future. Maybe. On the pensions or something. If costs go up (and, like, the private company doesn’t charge more).<\/p>\n

In other news, I hate to mention this but, well, 30 and 1, what can I say? It could all turn to crap in one game, of course, but for now I reckon I’ll enjoy it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poor Rush. Here he goes and “apologizes” for his “poor choice of words” in spewing the same shit he’s always spewing, and people don’t think he’s sincere. I feel about as bad for him as I do for the dearly departed Andrew Dimbart. Hopefully the two of them will be getting together real soon to […]<\/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-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","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=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}