{"id":67895,"date":"2018-09-10T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67895"},"modified":"2018-09-09T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T04:54:56","slug":"state-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67895","title":{"rendered":"State Of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of the blog writes :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First off, if Minneapolis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/glean\/2018\/09\/minneapolis-joins-brief-against-trump-administrations-weakening-of-fuel-standards\/\">were really serious about saving gas mileage,<\/a> they&#8217;d make the streets drivable by stopping so many bike lanes that have forced cars onto more and more dismal main arteries that are clogged with traffic while the bike lanes are empty (especially from November through March.\u00a0 This is something that the city council could actually have an effect on fuel mileage.\u00a0 Quit whining about things out of their jurisdiction.\u00a0 Could you imagine the fuel savings if we could actually get from point a to point b without total traffic congestion in my fair city?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Second let me paraphrase the section on Ellison with italics indicating what I changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Could also\u00a0be said by<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/09\/03\/mn-republicans-are-trying-to-make-just-about-every-race-about-keith-ellison\/\"><u>Dave Orrick in the PiPress<\/u><\/a>, \u201c<strong><em>Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump<\/em>. It\u2019s all about <em>Donald Trump<\/em>,<\/strong> at least according a\u00a0<em>Democratic<\/em> narrative as part of the\u00a0<em>every<\/em> wave of what promises to be a tide of political attack ads coming to Minnesota\u2019s 2018 election season. Even in races where\u00a0<em>Trump<\/em> isn\u2019t running, from the U.S. Senate high on the ballot down to state House races, he\u2019s under attack. \u2026 The ads and social media messages basically say this:\u00a0<em>Republican<\/em> candidate (insert name) has refused to condemn\u00a0<em>Donald Trump<\/em>\u00a0for <em>(insert issue here)<\/em>. He\/she should be ashamed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sheesh Mitch.\u00a0 Such a world we live in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump is something the Left can deflect to &#8211; or so it thinks &#8211; forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime friend of the blog writes : First off, if Minneapolis were really serious about saving gas mileage, they&#8217;d make the streets drivable by stopping so many bike lanes that have forced cars onto more and more dismal main arteries that are clogged with traffic while the bike lanes are empty (especially from November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump-derangement","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67895","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=67895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67934,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67895\/revisions\/67934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}