{"id":632,"date":"2009-12-21T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:38:20","slug":"monday-thoughts_21-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/monday-thoughts_21-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 229px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 163px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417694105731754514\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/harry-reid-finger.jpg\" \/> Long ago I switched from being excited about getting at Christmas to being excited about giving.<\/li>\n<li>Can you believe this health care bill? They are simply passing junk so they can get a foothold so they can morph it to a nightmare later. It looks nothing like it was supposed to be <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">originally<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t wait for it&#8217;s outcome (the new taxes, etc). Then I can&#8217;t wait for the elections!<\/li>\n<li>Payback is a BITCH.<\/li>\n<li>All this irritates me so much.<\/li>\n<li>Also I was listening to NPR prattle on about their favorite subject <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">Copenhagen<\/span> this weekend. Man some &#8216;international important people&#8217; are really pissed they aren&#8217;t getting a ton of free money and fast. It all sounds like a load of crap to me.<\/li>\n<li>No mention from the BBC during all this about the phony &#8216;research&#8217; and how it has skewed all data it was used in&#8230; hum&#8230; My <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">theory<\/span> is is that it&#8217;s a big money making scam.<\/li>\n<li>What I don&#8217;t understand is how the president can make any binding contracts without the consent of the American People. That sounds a little illegal to me.<\/li>\n<li>I think a lot of our problems in this nation would be solved if you removed all everyone in congress and replaced them with randomly chosen college graduates (40+ years old) every other year. Once chosen and once you did your duty, you could never run for any other office ever.<\/li>\n<li>THINK about that last point. Pretty smart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago I switched from being excited about getting at Christmas to being excited about giving. Can you believe this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[423,253,254,50,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}