{"id":197391,"date":"2008-02-07T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/because-republican-senators-have-nothing-better-to-do-with-their-time\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T23:05:00","slug":"because-republican-senators-have-nothing-better-to-do-with-their-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/07\/because-republican-senators-have-nothing-better-to-do-with-their-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Republican Senators Have Nothing Better to Do With Their time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the hippy-dippy city council of Berkeley California decides to waste its time declaring a Marine recruiting station &#8220;unwelcome&#8221; in the town, and in reaponse, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/origin.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_8186244\">Six Republican senators, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and an Orange County representative on Wednesday introduced companion bills called the Semper Fi Act of 2008 that seek to take away $2.3 million from Berkeley earmarked in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill and give it to the Marine Corps<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re wrestling with a pig, dudes.  You both get dirty, and the pig loves it.<\/p>\n<p>Where that money would come from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$243,000 from the Chez Panisse Foundation, which provides 10,000 daily school lunches for Berkeley public schools<\/li>\n<li>$243,000 for the Ed Roberts Campus, a project that houses offices for disability organizations<\/li>\n<li>$750,000 for water ferry service planned from Berkeley to San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>$94,000 for a police and fire emergency communications system<\/li>\n<li>$975,000 from UC Berkeley&#8217;s Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, which houses the papers of the late U.S. Rep. Robert Matsui<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the hippy-dippy city council of Berkeley California decides to waste its time declaring a Marine recruiting station &#8220;unwelcome&#8221; in the town, and in reaponse, &#8220;Six Republican senators, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and an Orange County representative on Wednesday introduced companion bills called the Semper Fi Act of 2008 that seek to take &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197391"}],"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=197391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}