{"id":407,"date":"2006-05-12T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/news-to-make-you-blue\/05\/12\/news-to-clean-your-shoes\/index.html"},"modified":"2006-05-12T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T17:46:10","slug":"news-to-clean-your-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/news-to-make-you-blue\/05\/12\/news-to-clean-your-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"News to Clean Your Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know when the shits hit the fan?  When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Scarborough\">Joe Scarborough<\/a>, someone who attempts to be more smeary and conservative then his Fox News FUHRERS, denounces the policies of the NSA and George Bush amid the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/5\/11\/125132\/743\">recent NSA-spy-on-every-American scandal<\/a>.  It also doesn&#8217;t help if you are easy prey, with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2006\/05\/11\/bushs-approval-ratings\/\">new polls showing less than 30% approval ratings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12719344\/01\">thousands have died in Baghdad alone<\/a> in the pastmonth.<\/p>\n<p>In similar affairs, Salon has an expose on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/feature\/2006\/05\/12\/goldberg\/\">&#8216;The Rise of Christian Nationalism&#8217;<\/a>.  For further evidence, John McCain, once a staunch opponent of the proposed federal ban on gay marriage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/conason\/2006\/05\/12\/mccain_and_right\/\">has been moving further to the right to pander to the ultra-right<\/a> that did not back his 2000 nomination.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, people at the United Nations still they think they are important.  This includes Kofi Annan, who has called for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=18420&#038;Cr=sustainable&#038;Cr1=development\">&#8216;Green Energy Revolution&#8217;<\/a>.  This does not include turning bodies of victims of the Rwandan or Darfur genocide into carbon-based fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Ever felt that politics is just a bunch of bull shit? Ever wonder if things get accomplished behind closed doors?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2006\/05\/07\/weekinreview\/20060507glassman_graph.html\">The answer is no.  And the NYTimes proved it<\/a> (or at least antedotally!).<\/p>\n<p>In the funny link of the day: it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2006\/05\/12\/super-mario-brother\/\">Super Mario Brother!<\/a>  I hope he wasn&#8217;t looking for E3 passes (Mmm gliven).  Part two of funny link: the <a href=\"http:\/\/mohamsterdance.blogspot.com\/\">Mohammed hamster dance!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know when the shits hit the fan? When Joe Scarborough, someone who attempts to be more smeary and conservative then his Fox News FUHRERS, denounces the policies of the NSA and George Bush amid the recent NSA-spy-on-every-American scandal. It also doesn&#8217;t help if you are easy prey, with new polls showing less than 30% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>News to Clean Your Shoes - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You know when the shits hit the fan? 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