{"id":24885,"date":"2016-02-26T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24885"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:18:33","slug":"a-couple-of-amusing-newsings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/a-couple-of-amusing-newsings\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of amusing newsings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve may have heard that establishment GOP pol Lindsey Graham said his party has gone <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/lindsey-graham-gop-bats-crazy\/story?id=37224071\" target=\"_blank\">batsh*t crazy<\/a>. And as proof of that, you may also have heard that Chris Christie has endorsed Donald Trump. Apparently out of spite against Marco Rubio. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>But one politician who wisely declines to endorse Trump under any circumstances is former Mexican president Vicente Fox, who says he has no intention to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/02\/26\/ex-mexican-prez-doubles-down-not-paying-for-trumps-fking-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">pay for Trump&#8217;s f*cking wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good man, that Fox. Any chance one of the parties could draft him?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the bad language. But on the other hand, it may be a good sign that politicians have finally driven each other to fits of cussing, rather than merely driving us to cussing at them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And while <i>Forbes<\/i> says you really can&#8217;t be arrested <i>merely<\/i> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kellyphillipserb\/2016\/02\/23\/can-you-be-arrested-for-not-paying-your-student-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\">not paying your student loans<\/a>, it appears that if the fedgov gets serious about the matter, quite a few doddering ancients <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/agenda\/story\/2016\/02\/the-latest-victims-of-student-debt-the-elderly-000053\" target=\"_blank\">could get busted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But that makes perfect sense, in a day when <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/26\/news\/economy\/middle-class-americans\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">even the upwardly mobile<\/a> &#8230; aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy our &#8220;interesting times,&#8221; guys. Now I&#8217;m signing off the &#8216;Net and returning to sanity for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve may have heard that establishment GOP pol Lindsey Graham said his party has gone batsh*t crazy. And as proof of that, you may also have heard that Chris Christie has endorsed Donald Trump. Apparently out of spite against Marco Rubio. Or something. But one politician who wisely declines to endorse Trump under any circumstances is former Mexican president Vicente Fox, who says he has no intention to pay for Trump&#8217;s f*cking wall. Good man, that Fox. Any chance one of the parties could draft him? Sorry for the bad language. But on the other hand, it may be a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/a-couple-of-amusing-newsings\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A couple of amusing newsings<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}