{"id":6277,"date":"2009-11-14T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2009-11-14T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T07:14:09","slug":"i-was-wondering-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6277","title":{"rendered":"I Was Wondering About This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;yesterday morning as I buttoned my shirt and tied my tie.<\/p>\n<p>Why haven&#8217;t we heard anything about immigration lately?<\/p>\n<p>And then we did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9BV1LK00.htm\">Napolitano pronounces US border more secure now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;as evidenced by the fact that we&#8217;ve built some more fence,\u00a0 enlarged the government&#8217;s payroll <small>and, uh, because of the crappy economy no one is coming here anymore.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Janet, speak up! I didn&#8217;t catch that last part.<\/p>\n<p><em>No one is coming here anymore.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ah. It&#8217;s another <em>Quoniam inquam sic<\/em> from the Obama administration. So I took it and threw it on a pile of other rubbish which includes\u00a0 &#8220;this Recovery Act has worked as intended,&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;America wants health care reform and is willing to pay for it&#8221; and\u00a0 &#8220;[Cash for Clunkers has been] successful beyond anybody&#8217;s imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the time to fortify our borders may have already passed. The terrorists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29411.html\">may already be here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/06\/AR2009110601899.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">the Pope is scanning the sky<\/a> for alien life. Either this is related, or all the world&#8217;s leaders have lost their marbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;yesterday morning as I buttoned my shirt and tied my tie. Why haven&#8217;t we heard anything about immigration lately? And then we did. Napolitano pronounces US border more secure now &#8230;as evidenced by the fact that we&#8217;ve built some more fence,\u00a0 enlarged the government&#8217;s payroll and, uh, because of the crappy economy no one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","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=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}