{"id":12914,"date":"2012-10-26T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=12914"},"modified":"2012-10-26T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:17:09","slug":"politics-and-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/politics-and-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Hurricanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the weather tonight and it occurred to me why Hurricane \u201cSandy\u201d would <strong>head<\/strong> up the eastern seaboard and then take a severe swing to the <strong>NW<\/strong>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/at201218_5day.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"at201218_5day\" border=\"0\" alt=\"at201218_5day\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/at201218_5day_thumb.gif?resize=595%2C447\" width=\"595\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/235535.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"235535\" border=\"0\" alt=\"235535\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/235535_thumb.gif?resize=596%2C478\" width=\"596\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be headed for Washington DC\u2026 with so many <strong>politicians<\/strong> and \u201chot <strong>wind<\/strong>\u201d experts in that area they have to be \u201csucking\u201d that <strong>thing<\/strong> <strong>right<\/strong> in\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>You must agree that <strong>right<\/strong> now, all <strong>politicians<\/strong> \u201c<strong>SUCK<\/strong>\u201d.&#160;&#160; Not a single <strong>one<\/strong> of them is worried about the <strong>people<\/strong> that put them there, just worried about doing what ever it takes to stay there, on the gravy train\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>REX<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the weather tonight and it occurred to me why Hurricane \u201cSandy\u201d would head up the eastern seaboard and then take a severe swing to the NW\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be headed for Washington DC\u2026 with so many politicians and \u201chot wind\u201d experts in that area they have to be \u201csucking\u201d that thing right in\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>You must agree that right now, all politicians \u201cSUCK\u201d.&#160;&#160; Not a single one of them is worried about the people that put them there, just worried about doing what ever it takes to stay there, on the gravy train\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>REX<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/politics-and-hurricanes\/\">&#8220;And Now the Rest of the Story &#8211; &#8220;Politics and Hurricanes?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,13],"class_list":["post-12914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aprs","tag-bbs","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Politics and Hurricanes? 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