{"id":84345,"date":"2023-01-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84345"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T13:15:25","slug":"the-party-of-science-tm-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84345","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Party Of Science&#8221; (TM) In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I was down at the State Capitol yesterday morning for the Gun Owners Lobby Day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there, I ran into a bunch of legislator friends, including former Representative, now Senator Eric Lucero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who told me this story, which I&#8217;m pleased to pass on to all of you now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats are the source of MANY bad ideas. For some reason, they can&#39;t seem to explain the warming period after the Ice Age&#8230; because Minnesota wasn&#39;t a state. You really can&#39;t make this up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/997v1SIHNH\">pic.twitter.com\/997v1SIHNH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eric Lucero (@EricLuceroMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLuceroMN\/status\/1618641302123323393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone get the impression Senator Mitchell was a &#8220;Meteorologist&#8221; at a failing small-market TV station before becoming part of the DFL machine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe Steve Carell studied her before doing &#8220;Anchorman?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was down at the State Capitol yesterday morning for the Gun Owners Lobby Day. While there, I ran into a bunch of legislator friends, including former Representative, now Senator Eric Lucero. Who told me this story, which I&#8217;m pleased to pass on to all of you now. Anyone get the impression Senator Mitchell was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,320,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-mndfl","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84345","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=84345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84348,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84345\/revisions\/84348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}