{"id":1954,"date":"2010-03-05T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/05\/2010-3-5-great-now-what-html\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:51:15","slug":"2010-3-5-great-now-what-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/2010-3-5-great-now-what-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Great, Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been trying to write a post about an interaction I&#8217;m in the middle of on Facebook, but every angle I try to take on the subject seems, well, not interesting. That story is hereby spiked.  What will go up is something else entirely, starting with another picture of an oddly proportioned Japanese car from the way-back machine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subaru.jp\/about\/spirits\/history\/1958\/1961.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Subaru Roadster, c.1961 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/subaru_roadster.gif\" alt=\"Subaru Roadster, c.1961\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><em>1961 Subaru Roadster (that may have a different name that I can&#8217;t read because it&#8217;s in Japanese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subaru.jp\/about\/spirits\/history\/1958\/1961.html\" target=\"_blank\">on their site<\/a>).<\/em> Rear-engine, 23 horsepowers of fury!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We were all entertained yesterday by the news that fierce gay rights opponent, Republican State Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/news\/local\/x379809007\/Report-ignites-debate-over-Ashburns-orientation-gay-rights-voting-record\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Ashburn<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/entering_the_larry_craig_pantheon.php?ref=fpblg\" target=\"_blank\">was pulled over for a DUI departing from a gay nightclub<\/a> on Wednesday morning. One of those universe self-leveling moments, I think. Then I learn this morning that legal gay marriage in Mexico City <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8549400.stm\" target=\"_blank\">had taken effect<\/a> yesterday. Predominantly conservative and Catholic Mexico City? The one in Mexico? And we can&#8217;t manage it in California, which I still find baffling.<\/li>\n<li>As you know, I&#8217;m a registered Democrat, but I have been fairly vocal about my &#8220;Anybody but Barbara Boxer&#8221; campaign this November. The problem is that the opponent with the highest name recognition in California is Carly Fiorina. If you put aside my animosity against her based on her record at HP that killed my last job, her mouth isn&#8217;t doing her any favors right now. She thinks that she&#8217;s a better candidate because Boxer <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/69083-fiorina-im-a-better-candidate-than-devore-because-i-am-a-woman\" target=\"_blank\">beats white men<\/a>, she&#8217;s anti-choice, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/monitor_breakfast\/2010\/0224\/Menendez-Sarah-Palin-dooms-Carly-Fiorina-and-GOP-chance-of-retaking-Senate\" target=\"_blank\">shares Sarah Palin&#8217;s values<\/a> (<em>whatever that means. sounds like pandering to tea partiers to me. &#8211; ed<\/em> Check!). So maybe not anybody-anybody. Maybe Tom Campbell can help&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>You remember former speaker of the California assembly Karen Bass, don&#8217;t you? She&#8217;s running for the Congressional seat being vacated by Diane Watson this year. She&#8217;s also the one who <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/nancy-pelosi-congressional-democrats-weigh-in-on-redistricting-measure.html\" target=\"_blank\">donated $20k<\/a> to a ballot initiative to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/ci_14473895?source=most_emailed\" target=\"_blank\">dissolve the citizen&#8217;s redistricting panel<\/a>. Well, as a parting gift to her Democratic caucus foot soldiers in our very broke state assembly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/03\/04\/2583810\/former-speaker-handed-out-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">she promoted twenty staff members and gave them 10% raises<\/a> in her last days as leader. Could stunts like this account for the deep financial hole the state&#8217;s in? Is this the same speaker who kept banging the drum about &#8220;revenue enhancements&#8221; to plug the state deficit?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew! Now that we&#8217;ve covered that, what&#8217;s for lunch?<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I&#8217;ve been trying to write a post about an interaction I&#8217;m in the middle of on Facebook, but every angle I try to take on the subject seems, well, not interesting. That story is hereby spiked. What will go up is something else entirely, starting with another picture of an oddly proportioned Japanese car &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/2010-3-5-great-now-what-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great, Now What?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,12,18,36],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars","tag-politics","tag-punditry","tag-this-amazing-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}