{"id":7264,"date":"2012-06-27T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T11:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2012-06-27T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T11:51:41","slug":"wednesday-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/06\/27\/wednesday-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The photos and video from the Colorado Springs area are pretty chilling. I was reading about the Waldo Canyon fire, and they were saying that they thought they had a pretty good handle on it, but then 65 mph winds just made it explode and spread in three different directions. A guy who flew over in a helicopter said it looked like a military invasion, and homes are just burning to the ground. Like, whole neighborhoods. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, tropical depression Debby is soaking Florida, with up to two feet of water in parts. Could be a bit of a bummer for folks down there on the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic seaboard, because FEMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Flood Insurance Program is set to expire soon, and Rand Paul will not allow a vote on a bipartisan bill to extend it for five years unless the Senate votes on legislation declaring that life begins at conception<\/a>. I guess it doesn’t rain in Kentucky.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why Rand Paul gets to decide that, and I’m not sure what fetal “personhood” has to do with flood insurance, and I’m not sure when, exactly, life begins. But I’m pretty sure life ends when you’ve been under water for a couple of days. And even if it doesn’t end, it’s pretty sucky when you’ve lost everything you own and have no money to replace it.<\/p>\n

So keep voting Republican.<\/p>\n

I just wish we could send some of that rain to Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photos and video from the Colorado Springs area are pretty chilling. I was reading about the Waldo Canyon fire, and they were saying that they thought they had a pretty good handle on it, but then 65 mph winds just made it explode and spread in three different directions. A guy who flew over […]<\/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-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","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=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}