{"id":8808,"date":"2010-02-23T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:07:50","slug":"to-protect-us-from-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8808","title":{"rendered":"To Protect Us From Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Harry Reid wants to pass a huge pork-barrel &#8220;jobs&#8221; bill that will benefit only government jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/82803-reid-men-when-theyre-out-of-work-tend-to-become-abusive\">protect women from the foul, urge-driven Neanderthals they&#8217;ve shacked up with against their better natures:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation, appeared to argue that joblessness would lead to more domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand,&#8221; Reid said on the Senate floor. &#8220;Why? Men don&#8217;t have jobs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Men, you see, are slaves to their base urges.\u00a0 Harry say man no have job, man hit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reid said that the effects of joblessness on domestic violence were especially pronounced among men, because, Reid said, women tend to be less abusive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women don&#8217;t have jobs either, but women aren\u2019t abusive, most of the time,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejfi.org\/DV\/dv-6.htm\">not<\/a> really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.org\/issues\/byissue\/femaledv.html\">true<\/a>, but Reid&#8217;s gotta answer to his political masters, and it&#8217;s a little off-topic anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Men, when they&#8217;re out of work, tend to become abusive,&#8221; the majority leader added. &#8220;Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hear that, all you guys <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in Nevada<\/span>?\u00a0 If Big Brother doesn&#8217;t keep you amused and occupied, you <em>just can&#8217;t help<\/em> taking it out on those around you.\u00a0 Your little male peabrain can&#8217;t <em>handle <\/em>the tough times.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping the voters of Nevada send Reid home to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">pummel his wife<\/span> to sit in a support group for potentially violent out-of-work Democrats soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Harry Reid wants to pass a huge pork-barrel &#8220;jobs&#8221; bill that will benefit only government jobs&#8230; &#8230;to protect women from the foul, urge-driven Neanderthals they&#8217;ve shacked up with against their better natures: Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-family-law","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","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=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8809,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}