{"id":4752,"date":"2009-05-08T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2009-05-08T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:22:20","slug":"cant-we-just-let-evolution-do-what-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4752","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t We Just Let Evolution Do What It Does?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-survival of the dumbest for example.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/05\/08\/florida-signs-new-primary-seat-belt-law-gets-35-million-from-g\/\">Drivers and front-seat passengers in Florida<\/a> may be cited for not wearing seat  belts when a new law takes effect on June 30. Known as a &#8220;primary&#8221; seat belt  law, the law allows enforcement officers to pull vehicles over solely for a belt  violation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds reasonable enough, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Signed into law by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliecrist.com\/\">Gov. Charlie Crist<\/a> earlier this week, the legislation makes  Florida eligible for up to $35 million in federal grant money created in 2005 as  an incentive for states to establish seat belt laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for holding firm to the principals of conservatism there Chuck. It&#8217;s my <em>pleasure<\/em> to pay federal income taxes and see them spent in Florida to incent some dufus to wear his seat belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-survival of the dumbest for example. Drivers and front-seat passengers in Florida may be cited for not wearing seat belts when a new law takes effect on June 30. Known as a &#8220;primary&#8221; seat belt law, the law allows enforcement officers to pull vehicles over solely for a belt violation Sounds reasonable enough, right? Signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}