{"id":249,"date":"2003-12-02T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/web_humor_2\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T03:13:07","slug":"web_humor_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/web_humor_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/1000438.asp?0cl=c1\">Bush To Do Everything in Secret<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/3947\/top_story.html\">Bush Re-Election Campaign Creates Thousands of New Jobs<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nAlso from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\">The Onion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Votes 64-36, Not Sure On What<br \/>\nWASHINGTON, DC\ufffdThe U.S. Senate voted 64-38 in favor of S. 546 Monday, despite the lack of any awareness of the bill&#8217;s contents. &#8220;Wait a minute\ufffdS. 546?&#8221; asked Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), hurriedly shuffling through a stack of papers after hearing of the bill&#8217;s passage. &#8220;I tend to just vote with Maria Cantwell [(D-WA)], but apparently, she just voted with Thomas Carper [(D-DE)]. Does anybody know what&#8217;s in S. 546?! Oh, geez.&#8221; Conrad said he isn&#8217;t certain, but that he might remember someone mentioning something about the Bend Pine Nursery Land Conveyance Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sad thing is that sometimes Members of Congress really <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> have an opportunity to see what&#8217;s in some of the bills they vote on, even the supposedly major laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/web_humor_2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Web Humor\"><p>&#8220;Bush To Do Everything in Secret&#8221; &#8220;Bush Re-Election Campaign Creates Thousands of New Jobs&#8221; Also from The Onion: Senate Votes 64-36, Not Sure On What WASHINGTON, DC\ufffdThe U.S. Senate voted 64-38 in favor of S. 546 Monday, despite the lack of any awareness of the bill&#8217;s contents. &#8220;Wait a minute\ufffdS. 546?&#8221; asked Sen. Kent Conrad [&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-249","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\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}