{"id":4340,"date":"2009-03-06T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T12:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2009-03-06T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T12:44:01","slug":"connect-the-dots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"Connect The Dots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, we noted Minnesota state officials saying that the economic downturn had curbed congestion.<\/p>\n<p>An isolated claim?\u00a0 Read <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idINTRE5251VN20090306\">this appearance by SecState Clinton at the EU<\/a> (to which I&#8217;m adding emphasis) and tell me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>Never waste a good crisis<\/strong>,&#8221; Clinton told a hearing at the European Parliament. &#8220;And <strong>when it comes to the economic crisis, don&#8217;t waste it <\/strong>when it can have <strong>a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_1\" \/>The United States is seen as the key player in global climate talks in Copenhagen in December, after President Barack Obama signaled a new urgency in tackling climate change in stark contrast to his predecessor George W.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First:\u00a0 is anyone checking Algore&#8217;s bank accounts?<\/p>\n<p>Second:\u00a0 Is this the most tone-deaf administration in history?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, we noted Minnesota state officials saying that the economic downturn had curbed congestion. An isolated claim?\u00a0 Read this appearance by SecState Clinton at the EU (to which I&#8217;m adding emphasis) and tell me: &#8220;Never waste a good crisis,&#8221; Clinton told a hearing at the European Parliament. &#8220;And when it comes to the economic crisis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,69,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-socialism","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","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=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}