{"id":178509,"date":"2018-11-08T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/08\/thoughts-and-prayers-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:01:00","slug":"thoughts-and-prayers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/08\/thoughts-and-prayers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts and Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translated into English, &#8220;Thoughts and Prayers,&#8221; means, &#8220;F%$# You I want my A grade from the NRA, you stupid chumps!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Case in point the response of ammosexual politicians to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-thousand-oaks-20181107-story.html\">the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks California<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A former U.S. Marine machine gunner who may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder burst into a Thousand Oaks bar packed with college students late Wednesday night, tossed a smoke bomb into the crowd and opened fire, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Eleven people were killed, in addition to a sheriff\u2019s sergeant responding to the scene who was gunned down by the assailant minutes later.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The suspected gunman, Ian David Long, was found dead of a gunshot wound in a back room at the bar. The amount of blood inside the bar made it difficult to tell whether he shot himself or was killed by law enforcement, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The bar\u2019s patrons also frequent the Stagecoach country music festival in  Indio, and some were also survivors of the mass shooting at the Route  91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas that left 58 dead last year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #5e1e04; font-size: 345%;\">T<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #758745; font-size: 214%;\">h<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #1a0b2b; font-size: 227%;\">o<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #3d3b44; font-size: 172%;\">u<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #302b93; font-size: 255%;\">g<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #850639; font-size: 262%;\">h<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #035927; 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font-size: 350%;\"> <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #812e6f; font-size: 335%;\">p<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #096f58; font-size: 232%;\">r<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #1b1733; font-size: 160%;\">a<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #945434; font-size: 223%;\">y<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #654701; font-size: 338%;\">e<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #4b7895; font-size: 205%;\">r<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #3b8d00; font-size: 158%;\">s<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #93712c; font-size: 151%;\">.<br \/><\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #901e77; font-size: 201%;\">T<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #86658c; font-size: 339%;\">h<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #12565d; font-size: 348%;\">o<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #8b512e; font-size: 219%;\">u<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #5a3d4c; font-size: 248%;\">g<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #107237; font-size: 199%;\">h<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #4d2660; font-size: 284%;\">t<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #6a6457; font-size: 158%;\">s<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #8a2f63; font-size: 350%;\"> <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #163707; font-size: 339%;\">a<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #420c49; font-size: 173%;\">n<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #63338c; font-size: 251%;\">d<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #213f6e; font-size: 350%;\"> <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #405384; font-size: 270%;\">p<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #611109; font-size: 207%;\">r<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #335708; font-size: 173%;\">a<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #383f13; font-size: 289%;\">y<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #5f0b8c; font-size: 187%;\">e<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #428949; font-size: 288%;\">r<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #476724; font-size: 308%;\">s<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #304f84; font-size: 169%;\">.<br \/><\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #29301c; font-size: 327%;\"><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated into English, &#8220;Thoughts and Prayers,&#8221; means, &#8220;F%$# You I want my A grade from the NRA, you stupid chumps!&#8221; Case in point the response of ammosexual politicians to the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks California: A former U.S. Marine machine gunner who may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder burst into a Thousand Oaks &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":[482,435,505,364,531,374],"class_list":["post-178509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-crimes","tag-disaster","tag-evil","tag-gun-laws","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178509"}],"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=178509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}