{"id":448,"date":"2007-02-13T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/13\/pick-your-poison\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T15:55:51","slug":"pick-your-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Pick Your Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wages of frivolity\u00a0are lunacy.\u00a0 Minnesota is starting to pay the piper for our neighbors&#8217; little\u00a0brainfart last November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you missed NARN III &#8220;The Final Word&#8221; last Saturday, the first (3-4PM) hour was one of the best hours of radio that the NARN has ever done (Podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/talkradio\/show.aspx?radioshowid=7\">should be available shortly<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Michael and King spent most of the hour running down a list of some of the worst bills our newly-DFL-dominated legislature has on the docket.\u00a0 They range from the ridiculous (Phyllis Kahn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us\/bin\/bldbill.php?bill=H0446.0.html&#038;session=ls85\">wants the state to force De La Salle High to shield light<\/a> from their new football field from the neighbors; Phillis Kahn, as it happens, is one of the neighbors) to the chilling (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us\/bin\/bldbill.php?bill=H0615.0.html&#038;session=ls85\">sex ed for kindergartners<\/a>, sending state bureaucrats to visit new parents to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us\/bin\/bldbill.php?bill=H0595.0.html&#038;session=ls85\">check up on things<\/a> and <strike>start addicting them<\/strike> orient them to available state programs).<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re taking a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scsuscholars.com\/2007\/02\/our-poll-pick-most-ridiculous-dfl.html\">straw poll for the Most Ridiculous Bill<\/a>.\u00a0 Follow the link, and vote.<\/p>\n<p>And then call your legislator and tell him\/her that you are not amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wages of frivolity\u00a0are lunacy.\u00a0 Minnesota is starting to pay the piper for our neighbors&#8217; little\u00a0brainfart last November.\u00a0 If you missed NARN III &#8220;The Final Word&#8221; last Saturday, the first (3-4PM) hour was one of the best hours of radio that the NARN has ever done (Podcast should be available shortly). Michael and King spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}