{"id":7737,"date":"2013-02-05T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2013-02-05T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:37:34","slug":"tuesday-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/02\/05\/tuesday-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago today that Siggy died.  It seems like forever ago, in some ways.  I had my phone hooked up to my computer the other day, and found a whole boatload of pictures of him that I&#8217;d taken the summer before he died, and he still looked good.  He went downhill pretty fast, which I suppose it a good thing.  I wish they lived longer, though I suppose it won&#8217;t be long before I&#8217;m on my last set of dogs.  Hopefully my wife will still be alive when I croak, because otherwise I&#8217;ll have to figure out how to make sure somebody will come and take care of the critters.  Maybe I&#8217;ll set something up where I post a message every day to a web page, and if I quit posting, somebody will come along and take care of the animals, and pick up whatever&#8217;s left of me once they&#8217;re done snacking (Granny went to some forensics seminar a while back, and, yeah, human&#8217;s best friend will definitely take advantage of a free meal &#8211; with tears in their eyes, no doubt).  So the sooner they come to collect me, the better.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of death, I see that the Obama Administration seems to think it&#8217;s OK for a &#8220;senior government official&#8221; to order the killing of a US citizen overseas whenever they think that person is a threat.  No judicial review before or after is required. I&#8217;m no expert, but this just doesn&#8217;t seem right to me. <\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s allowed to stand (and no doubt it will), how long will it be before some administration decides the <del datetime=\"2013-02-05T12:14:43+00:00\">assasination<\/del> self defense doesn&#8217;t even need to take place on foreign soil?  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The White House Chief of Staff determined that the Speaker of the House had ties to Al-Qaeda, so he ordered a drone strike.  We&#8217;re very sorry for the collateral damage, and will be asking the new Speaker to approve funding to rebuild the Smithsonian Air and Space museum &#8211; and we have every reason to believe that she&#8217;ll be cooperative, if she knows what&#8217;s good for her.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A shame they didn&#8217;t have this when Gingrich was Speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago today that Siggy died. It seems like forever ago, in some ways. I had my phone hooked up to my computer the other day, and found a whole boatload of pictures of him that I&#8217;d taken the summer before he died, and he still looked good. He went downhill pretty [&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-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}