{"id":38337,"date":"2013-09-13T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38337"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:42:37","slug":"carnival-of-doakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38337","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Of Doakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_24064516\/mnsure-criticized-lack-outreach-contracts-black-groups\">Complaints<\/a> about how the Obamacare Outreach contracts were awarded.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">The complainers\u2019 logic escapes me: only Blacks can reach out to to other Blacks to give them free stuff, they won&#8217;t accept it from Whites? Or do you fear White Minnesota Democrats are 1963 racists who will intentionally exclude Blacks from the free stuff, Jim-Crow style? Is this about race at all, or is it about who gets the taxpayer-funded make-work job?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Obama says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_24057696\/talking-diplomacy-syria-obama-goes-congress\">bombing Syria will prevent Assad from using chemical weapons again<\/a>, which will deter everybody else from acquiring and using them, which makes our own children safer in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Condensed version: bomb Syria, for the children.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New \u201cstudy\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_24067461\/report-shows-early-childhood-programs-reduce-crime\">proves<\/a> federally funded early childhood education programs will save Minnesota 4.8 billion in prison costs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Look for details on this \u2013 Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom is involved so we know it\u2019s anti-gun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/crime\/ci_24062821\/burnsville-man-came-after-girlfriend-gas-station-hostage\">guy with a sawed-off shotgun arrested<\/a> in Burnsville.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">You see, this is why we need universal background checks, to prevent guys like this from carrying sawed-off shotguns into banks and convenience stores. Because although he&#8217;s already a career criminal who ignored half-a-dozen laws to commit this crime, he&#8217;ll surely obey the next law. Or the one after that. Or the one . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/223310271.html\">Windmills kill eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">So is that too many dead eagles, or not enough? How many dead eagles is too many dead eagles, if the goal is to achieve energy independence? You want green energy or not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/223252121.html\">Car bomb explodes on 9\/11 outside building formerly used as US Consulate in Benghazi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s empty (except for FBI investigators still trying to figure out what happened there a year ago when a bunch of film critics chased us away) so no important American officials killed this time. But bombs are used to send a message (see: Johnson in Vietnam, Obama in Syria). The message Al Qaeda sent with this bomb: \u201cAnd don\u2019t come back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hit the road, Barack&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Complaints about how the Obamacare Outreach contracts were awarded. The complainers\u2019 logic escapes me: only Blacks can reach out to to other Blacks to give them free stuff, they won&#8217;t accept it from Whites? Or do you fear White Minnesota Democrats are 1963 racists who will intentionally exclude Blacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,66,131,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-health-care","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337","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=38337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38338,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337\/revisions\/38338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}