{"id":1085,"date":"2008-11-15T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/15\/should-i-cool-it-or-should-i-blow\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T17:36:29","slug":"should-i-cool-it-or-should-i-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/should-i-cool-it-or-should-i-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I cool it or should I blow?*"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There are so many unbelievably inane thngs<\/a> that go on in Elbert County. . . .out here in the boondocks where thinking is considered an unnatural act. So, selecting a single candidate from the dimmest and dumbest was a daunting task.”<\/p>\n

– o –<\/p>\n

“Whatever form it takes, there is a recognition of community, like a genuine smile or a ‘howdy neighbor.’ The wave is like rural shorthand for ‘life is tough but we are all in this together<\/a> – glad you’re onboard.'”<\/p>\n

\u00a0– o –<\/p>\n

With friends like this, who needs enemies? <\/em><\/p>\n

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“If each one of us should seize upon the property of his neighbours and take from each whatever he could appropriate to his own use, the bonds of human society must inevitably be annihilated.”\u00a0 Cicero, On Duties<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Apocalyptic stories about the irreparable, catastrophic damage that humans are doing to the natural environment have been around for a long time.\u00a0 These hysterics often have some basis in reality, but are blown up to illogical and ridiculous proportions.\u00a0 Part of the reason they’re so appealing is that they have the ring of plausibility along with the intrigue of a horror flick.\u00a0 In many cases, the alarmists identify a legitimate issue, take the possible consequences to an extreme, and advocate action on the basis of these extreme projections.”\u00a0 Kaleita and Forbes, Pacific Research Institute<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Standard operating procedure for most issues at Abe21.<\/em><\/p>\n

*The Clash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There are so many unbelievably inane thngs that go on in Elbert County. . . .out here in the boondocks where thinking is considered an unnatural act. So, selecting a single candidate from the dimmest and dumbest was a daunting task.” – o – “Whatever form it takes, there is a recognition of community, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}