{"id":4152,"date":"2009-02-05T06:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T11:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2009-02-05T06:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T11:21:54","slug":"its-twue-its-twue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Twue!  It&#8217;s Twue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created a bit of a mathematical law, derived from observing liberals.<\/p>\n<p>When they&#8217;re quoting numbers (except for spending figures), divide by an order of magnitude.\u00a0 Maybe two.\u00a0 Maaaaaybe more.<\/p>\n<p>For example:\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Million_Man_March\">Million Man March<\/a>?\u00a0 That was a bit of an outlier:\u00a0 according to the Park Service, you needed to divide that by a trifling 2.5.<\/p>\n<p>The Million Mom March?\u00a0 An order up front, a little over two today.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videosift.com\/video\/Nancy-Pelosi-500-000-000-american-lose-their-jobs-a-month\">joblessness estimate?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look &#8211; I understand flubs.\u00a0 Even though Barack Obama went to Harvard (and thus only <em>needs <\/em>to really know three or four states for real) I&#8217;m pretty sure he knows there are fifty states.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;d be fun to quiz him on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F14%2Fobama-stumbles-on-iraq-afghanistan%2F&#038;ei=M0-KSdetIJjAtgeBvZmeBw&#038;usg=AFQjCNHzZlXHncBIFemPWwX_wBUyc2uW_Q&#038;sig2=22W6sqXh7l6QqcHS2va6mw\">near-eastern and Central Asian languages<\/a>; d&#8217;ya suppose Charlie Gibson is available?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created a bit of a mathematical law, derived from observing liberals. When they&#8217;re quoting numbers (except for spending figures), divide by an order of magnitude.\u00a0 Maybe two.\u00a0 Maaaaaybe more. For example:\u00a0 the Million Man March?\u00a0 That was a bit of an outlier:\u00a0 according to the Park Service, you needed to divide that by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","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=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}