{"id":2115,"date":"2006-10-17T01:08:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/welcome_3000000\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T01:08:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T05:08:54","slug":"welcome_3000000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/welcome_3000000\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome 300,000,000th Visitor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . er, I mean American.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/10\/16\/iraq-study-group-to-rule-out-victory-in-report-managed-withdrawal\/\">Managed withdrawal<\/a>&#8220;&#8211;not to be confused with &#8220;cut and run.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/001813.php\">provides another example<\/a> of what GOP personal responsibility is all about.<\/li>\n<li>Some religious rightists <a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.agapepress.org\/archive\/10\/afa\/162006a.asp\">are distressed<\/a> about the &#8220;deferential treatment&#8221; a homosexual appointee and his partner received at the State Department swearing in ceremony.  I guess they wanted him to be publicly flogged, or something.<\/li>\n<li>Viewers watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/web_ratings\/msnbccom_breaks_online_video_record_45638.asp\">88 million video clips<\/a> at MSNBC.com in September.  Too bad the TV network probably didn&#8217;t have 8 million viewers all month.<\/li>\n<li>As if the Saturday night&#8217;s footbrawl between Miami and Florida International wasn&#8217;t bad enough, here&#8217;s what the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory?id=2574695\">CSS color analyst said<\/a> during the broadcast:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about,&#8221; [Lamar] Thomas said as the brawl raged out of control. &#8220;You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don&#8217;t come into the OB playing that stuff. You&#8217;re across the ocean over there. You&#8217;re across the city. You can&#8217;t come over to our place talking noise like that. You&#8217;ll get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator to get in that thing.&#8221;<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;I say, why don&#8217;t they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more? You don&#8217;t come into the OB, baby,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a down couple years but you don&#8217;t come in here talking smack. Not in our house.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Thomas has since been fired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/welcome_3000000\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Welcome 300,000,000th Visitor!\"><p>. . . er, I mean American. &#8220;Managed withdrawal&#8220;&#8211;not to be confused with &#8220;cut and run.&#8221; Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) provides another example of what GOP personal responsibility is all about. Some religious rightists are distressed about the &#8220;deferential treatment&#8221; a homosexual appointee and his partner received at the State Department swearing in ceremony. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}