{"id":2875,"date":"2011-02-27T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2011-02-27T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T01:58:58","slug":"year-2-month-2-day-28-how-do-you-handle-a-hungry-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-2-day-28-how-do-you-handle-a-hungry-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 2, Day 28: How Do You Handle A Hungry Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Advocate (TX) runs an article on Joe Read,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriaadvocate.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/18\/bc-mt-xgr-climate-change\/?news&#038;nation-world\">the loony in Montana who&#8217;s introduced a bill declaring global warming beneficial.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine reading a few decades ago that a lawmaker had introduced a bill which not only designated tobacco as a foodstuff, but also defined lung cancer and emphysema as signs of overall health.  It&#8217;d  be pretty clear that the politician in question had either been paid off by the big tobacco firms, or had been fooled by them; looking back with the benefit of hindsight, we would have to choose: what motivated him \u2014 cupidity or stupidity?  A few decades from now, exactly the same question will be asked about Rep. Joe Read, whose attempt to renegotiate the facts of climate change shows a similar unwillingness to remove ideological filters.  A few seconds&#8217; research on the phrase &#8220;mountain pine beetle&#8221; will demonstrate one of the many dangers posed to Montana by global warming.  But perhaps Rep. Read is too busy eating a cigarette sandwich to care.   Mmmmmm.  Yummy.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Advocate (TX) runs an article on Joe Read,the loony in Montana who&#8217;s introduced a bill declaring global warming beneficial. Imagine reading a few decades ago that a lawmaker had introduced a bill which not only designated tobacco as a foodstuff, but also defined lung cancer and emphysema as signs of overall health. It&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[467,253,207,803],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-mountain-pine-beetle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}