{"id":51168,"date":"2015-02-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51168"},"modified":"2015-02-07T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T13:37:12","slug":"force-of-habit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51168","title":{"rendered":"Force Of Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

A local lawyer of my acquaintance wants to be a judge in the worst way. He\u2019s applied several times, never got an interview, thinks maybe he needs to network, find someone to put in a good word with the Judicial Selection Committee. <\/p>\n

Dude, you\u2019re playing the game under the Old Rules. It\u2019s not gonna work.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a 49-year-old straight White Male, married with two kids, Christian, not a veteran, not handicapped. You get no diversity points; in fact, you\u2019re the guy we\u2019re trying to replace by giving Everybody Else diversity points.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a party-line Democrat but only in the voting booth; you\u2019re not tight with Senators Amy or Al, Mayor Chris or Governor Dayton\u2019s puppeteers so nobody is willing to move your resume to the top of the pile.<\/p>\n

A bunch of kids in his children\u2019s school are sick. He\u2019s certain it\u2019s because of those damned right-wing kook anti-vaccine people. Maybe. Or maybe they\u2019re unaccompanied illegal immigrants that Obama caught, released and disbursed all over the country to spread exotic South American diseases throughout a population<\/a> that\u2019s not inoculated against them. Gee, sorry your kid is sick but it was an entirely foreseeable consequence of a policy adopted for the Greater Social Good. Gotta break a few eggs, you know, and one of them is yours.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also setting aside money in a 529 Educational Savings plan that Obama wants to tax so other people\u2019s kids can go to college free. <\/p>\n

See what being a dutiful Liberal gets you? Not a damned thing. In fact, the exact policies he supports For A Better Society are the ones holding him back. He\u2019s like that guy in the Sprint commercial wanting to \u201cstick it to the man\u201d except it turns out, he is The Man. I believe the French expression is: hoist on your own petard.<\/p>\n

I keep waiting for the scales to fall from his eyes and a new Conservative to be born. Any day now . . . .\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the left calls Christians “faith-based”\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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