{"id":290,"date":"2002-08-21T22:02:13","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/290"},"modified":"2002-08-21T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2002-08-21T17:02:13","slug":"sheesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/290","title":{"rendered":"Sheesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/020821\/168\/22vi3.html&#038;e=2\">people like this<\/a> get charged with felonies?  Sure, she was stupid, but if we make stupidity a felony there won&#8217;t be enough room in the U.S. for the jails we&#8217;d need.  <\/p>\n<p>And why in the hell is it the gummint&#8217;s business <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=519&#038;e=4&#038;u=\/ap\/20020821\/ap_on_re_us\/breast_feeding_custody_1\">how long you nurse your kid<\/a>?  Note the cute double entendre headline.  I guess it&#8217;s ok for the new head of DCF in Florida to advocate spanking hard enough to raise welts, but the woman in Illinois who breastfeeds her 8 year old 3 times a month is endangering him to the point that he needs to be in foster care.<\/p>\n<p>The government needs to stay <i>out<\/i> of our homes.  They have no right telling me how to raise my kids, that I need to drug my kids, how I have to feed (or not feed) my kids, what I can and can&#8217;t teach my kids, what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/offbeat\/articles\/0821bluehair-ON.html\">color my kids&#8217; hair is<\/a>, and how I am allowed to make babies.  Next stop: everything but the missionary position is outlawed.<\/p>\n<p>What Karyn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savekaryn.com\">SaveKaryn.com<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/bosnak1.html\">looks like<\/a>.  This is the face of the beggar of the 00&#8217;s.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry, but <a href=\"http:\/\/chocolates.tripod.com\/christian.html\">eating a chocolate Jesus<\/a> is just too disconcerting.<br \/>\nInterestingly, 3 of the Fort Bragg soldiers who killed their wives this summer were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/view.cfm?StoryID=20020816-031451-2147r\">taking the same anti-malarial drug<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore proof that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2002\/08\/20\/jenkins_on_donahue\/index.html?x\">Donahue&#8217;s an assshole<\/a>.<br \/>\nAre you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/technology\/chi-0208200194aug20.story\">diamond in the rough<\/a>?  These people seem to think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people like this get charged with felonies? Sure, she was stupid, but if we make stupidity a felony there won&#8217;t be enough room in the U.S. for the jails we&#8217;d need. And why in the hell is it the gummint&#8217;s business how long you nurse your kid? Note the cute double entendre headline. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}