{"id":3741,"date":"2008-12-04T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2008-12-03T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T23:34:10","slug":"a-headline-i%c2%a0love-mnpubliuscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3741","title":{"rendered":"Barbarians At The Barbeque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zack over at MNPublius <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2008\/12\/a-headline-i-love\/\">noticed a story that caught his attention<\/a>\u00a0over on the <em>Strib<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3205\/3081171834_6e856be50f_m.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that North Dakota has&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/north-dakota.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4222]\" \/>almost identical <a href=\"http:\/\/cfpolicyblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/sat-scores-by-state.html\">SAT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohe.state.mn.us\/mPg.cfm?pageID=1439\">ACT<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/iq-by-state-new-data.html\">IQ<\/a> scores as Minnesota, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/coe\/2008\/section3\/table.asp?tableID=896\">vastly-better high school graduation<\/a> rates, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;at the moment a much more recession-proof economy, and does all this&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;while spending a fraction of what Minnesota does per capita, using&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;a legislature that meets every <em>other<\/em> year and that otherwise keeps out of peoples&#8217; hair, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;still pays legislators $5\/day (they haven&#8217;t gotten a raise since the 19th century&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;I thought &#8220;Yay.\u00a0 My home state is finally doing something to keep hapless Minnesotans from sabotaging the place, the way Californians have mangled Colorado&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alas, it was not to be: the Predators are supposed to keep Canadians, running from <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/02\/canadas-opposition-tries-a-coup-of-sorts\/\">their own liberals&#8217; power-grab<\/a>, isolated on <em>their <\/em>side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>Zack from MNPublius:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s about time the government did something about the swarms of North Dakota freeloaders taking advantage of their state\u2019s proximity to\u00a0ours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We come here for the nightlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We stay to convert the place, in good time, to &#8220;East Dakota&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All in good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack over at MNPublius noticed a story that caught his attention\u00a0over on the Strib: Given that North Dakota has&#8230;: almost identical SAT, ACT, and IQ scores as Minnesota, and&#8230; &#8230;vastly-better high school graduation rates, and&#8230; &#8230;at the moment a much more recession-proof economy, and does all this&#8230; &#8230;while spending a fraction of what Minnesota does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","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=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}