{"id":46366,"date":"2014-08-13T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46366"},"modified":"2014-08-13T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:13:28","slug":"priorities-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46366","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MNSure is a disaster that&#8217;s going to cost us hundreds of millions of dollars &#8211; much more, in fact, that most of the state&#8217;s natural disasters.\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>Behind the happy talk, the <a title=\"Chanting Points Memo: Our Slammin\u2019 Economy!*\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46316\">state&#8217;s economy is showing signs of slowing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our major cities&#8217; minority achievement gaps are worse than those in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Detroit.\u00a0 Indeed, we are worse than the proverbial &#8220;cold Omaha&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s been the top news of the week among the left and media (pardon the redundancy)?<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestemprairie.com\/bluestemprairie\/2014\/08\/mngop-state-secretarys-callous-tweet-at-grief-for-robin-williams-passing-draws-online-heat.html\">ill-advised tweets about Robin Williams by the MNGOP&#8217;s deputy. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow-up question:\u00a0 What is it that bothered the left\/media about Mr. Fields&#8217; tweets?\u00a0 Was it the politicization of a tragedy?\u00a0 Or was it that someone would tweet something grossly inappropriate?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m sure nobody on the left would <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/08\/12\/3470324\/robin-williams-global-warming\/\">politicize a tragedy <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37072\">tweet something stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll hear back on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNSure is a disaster that&#8217;s going to cost us hundreds of millions of dollars &#8211; much more, in fact, that most of the state&#8217;s natural disasters.\u00a0 . Behind the happy talk, the state&#8217;s economy is showing signs of slowing.\u00a0 Our major cities&#8217; minority achievement gaps are worse than those in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Detroit.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46366","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=46366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46374,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46366\/revisions\/46374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}