{"id":178017,"date":"2019-03-30T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/30\/seriously-reality-outstrips-my-wildest-hallucinations\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:11:00","slug":"seriously-reality-outstrips-my-wildest-hallucinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/30\/seriously-reality-outstrips-my-wildest-hallucinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, Reality Outstrips My Wildest Hallucinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the confirmation hearing for David Bernhardt, Trump&#8217;s nominee to replace the fabulously corrupt Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/436263-swamp-creature-crashes-interior-picks-hearing\">a protester donned a &#8220;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#8221; mask<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A protester dressed as a \u201cswamp creature\u201d was escorted out of a confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The protester remained seated for two hours before being escorted out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A protester dressed as a \u201cswamp creature\u201d was escorted out of a confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt Thursday morning. The protester remained seated for two hours before being escorted out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Bernhardt, a former oil and gas industry lobbyist, reportedly helped block the release of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study outlining the effects of pesticides on endangered species while working as a deputy Interior secretary under <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/ryan-zinke\">Ryan Zinke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/26\/us\/politics\/endangered-species-david-bernhardt.html\">according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An Interior Department spokesman told the Times that Bernhardt&#8217;s actions had been \u201cgoverned solely by legitimate concerns regarding the legal sufficiency and policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously weird:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMoI0DXSsbg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the confirmation hearing for David Bernhardt, Trump&#8217;s nominee to replace the fabulously corrupt Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior, a protester donned a &#8220;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#8221; mask: A protester dressed as a \u201cswamp creature\u201d was escorted out of a confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt Thursday morning. The protester &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,447,484,374,590,401,421],"class_list":["post-178017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-congress","tag-environment","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-video","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}