{"id":2068,"date":"2008-02-14T06:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2008-02-14T06:25:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T11:25:43","slug":"a-penny-spent-is-a-penny-squandered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"A Penny Spent Is A Penny Squandered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: I support free speech more than anyone in the Twin Cities.  Along with being the Twin Cities&#8217; best feminist, it is one of my major superlatives.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not so much that I <em>oppose <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truebluemn.com\/index.php\/\">this idea<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True Blue Minnesota is lighting up the night sky with giant Jumbotrons, where we hold the Republicans to their record, let them hang themselves with their own words, show people a better future and do it in a way that DRAWS PEOPLE TO US! True Blue owns the night sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;as that I wonder how many Saint Paulites &#8211; Republican or Tic &#8211; really want <em>anyone <\/em>&#8220;owning&#8221; their night sky.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And we will own the national media with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They make this sound like it&#8217;ll be a conflict.<\/p>\n<p>And this next line grabbed me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True Blue will also be able to drive what happens on the street by setting the tone and the message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Giant Jumbotrons setting the tone and the message?  Like <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=z9PQ16KVntQ\">this<\/a>?  Or, really, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J7Kznmrc3o4&#038;NR=1\">this<\/a>? (Scroll about 2:30 into the clip and tell me you don&#8217;t think about exactly what these people are after&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, More of George Soros (*) money well-spent!<\/p>\n<p>* Plural, not singular.<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: I support free speech more than anyone in the Twin Cities. Along with being the Twin Cities&#8217; best feminist, it is one of my major superlatives. So it&#8217;s not so much that I oppose this idea&#8230;: True Blue Minnesota is lighting up the night sky with giant Jumbotrons, where we hold the Republicans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}