{"id":188210,"date":"2010-11-12T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/12\/wanktastic\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T23:40:00","slug":"wanktastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/12\/wanktastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanktastic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 310px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/44Zg2lr8b5k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/44Zg2lr8b5k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Yeah, this gives me hairballs too<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s favorite NFL blowout, Heath Shuler, has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/11\/here-comes-shuler-nc-dem-set-to-make-his-leadership-bid-official-this-weekend.php\">challenge Nancy Pelosi as minority leader in the 112th Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This guy&#8217;s entire life has been defined by his trying to do things that he was manifestly unfit to do, whether it&#8217;s being an NFL Quarterback (top ten first round draft10 busts) a representative of the values of Democratic Party, or of pretty much anything he has done since he has gotten out of college.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that Nancy Pelosi hangs him by his entrails on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statue_of_Freedom\">Statue of  Freedom<\/a> on top of the Capitol Dome.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m considering taking up a collection to have Gus Frerotte move to his district and run against him.  After all, someone needs to replace this <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">loser<\/span>, and Frerotte has already proved that he has what it takes to do that.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">In a purely metaphorical, &#8220;He needs to be slapped down in a parliamentary kind of way.&#8221;<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The reason that I do not wish him to be threatened with actual physical harm, is that when he is threatened with the possibility of physical harm, he throws a pass to the opposing team, which in this case, is the Republican Party.<\/span><sup>\u2021<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I think.  All things considered, I&#8217;m not sure <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">which<\/span> team he is really playing for in Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this gives me hairballs too Everyone&#8217;s favorite NFL blowout, Heath Shuler, has decided to challenge Nancy Pelosi as minority leader in the 112th Congress. This guy&#8217;s entire life has been defined by his trying to do things that he was manifestly unfit to do, whether it&#8217;s being an NFL Quarterback (top ten first round &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978,1057,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics","category-sports","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188210"}],"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=188210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}