{"id":1617,"date":"2010-06-23T23:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2010-06-23T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:11:23","slug":"month-6-day-24-another-day-another-dullard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-6-day-24-another-day-another-dullard\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 6, Day 24: Another Day, Another Dullard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view.bg?articleid=1263393&#038;format=comments&#038;cnum=2\">The Boston Herald ran the same AP story<\/a> on Feldman&#8217;s ruling blocking the drilling moratorium.  For a dose of idiocy, check out the comments.  The Herald has yet to run one of my letters.  Or maybe they have, and don&#8217;t bother to call or confirm.  How would I know?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Feldman&#8217;s opinion is logically flawed.  The government wants to stop exploratory drilling until it figures out what caused the catastrophe in the Gulf \u2014 and the judge decides that the platforms are safe, because nothing&#8217;s happened to them yet.  Well, maybe that&#8217;s it&#8217;s done in Louisiana, but I learned that if something&#8217;s broken, you stop using it until it&#8217;s fixed.  If my mechanic thinks my brakes are bad, it&#8217;s irresponsible to go back on the road, even if I haven&#8217;t had an accident.  We don&#8217;t know all the factors that brought about the catastrophe on the Deepwater Horizon, and it&#8217;s a grotesque blunder to assume that because other drilling platforms haven&#8217;t yet exploded and sunk, they must be safe.   I suspect the judge&#8217;s substantial investments had an influence; I have observed that oil, among its other malign side effects, appears to make people in positions of power act stupidly.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald ran the same AP story on Feldman&#8217;s ruling blocking the drilling moratorium. For a dose of idiocy, check out the comments. The Herald has yet to run one of my letters. Or maybe they have, and don&#8217;t bother to call or confirm. How would I know? Judge Feldman&#8217;s opinion is logically flawed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[164,207,536,378],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-boston-herald","tag-idiots","tag-martin-feldman","tag-offshore-drilling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}