{"id":7367,"date":"2011-09-02T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2011-09-02T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:25:10","slug":"glock-and-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7367","title":{"rendered":"Glock and Load"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was going to lead off with this article from Wonkette<\/a>, then follow it with a satirical headline of my own:<\/p>\n

Arizona GOP Announces Emancipation Day “Slave Auction” with Prize for Best Black-Face Costume<\/h4>\n

And then I read the original article<\/a>, and of course the event isn’t being held “in memory of the Gabby Giffords shooting” at all.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a Pima County GOP get-out-the-vote fundraiser.\u00a0 Yes, they’re auctioning off a Glock pistol, and yes, they’re doing it in the same county where Jared Loughner used a Glock to kill six and wound fourteen back in January.\u00a0 That, I guess, is enough for the wags at Wonkette.<\/p>\n

I love the snarky reporting and commentary at Wonkette.\u00a0 I despise what the Republican Party has become.\u00a0 It would have been okay to point out the GOP’s crude insensitivity in planning to auction off a Glock pistol in Gabrielle Gifford’s congressional district, but to say the auction is being held “in memory of” the shootings is a step too far.\u00a0 Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a lie.\u00a0 So far today, almost 24 hours later, Wonkette has not retracted it.<\/p>\n

Still … this is a remarkably tone-deaf thing to do, even for racist teabagger trolls.\u00a0 Probably local GOPers are patting each other on the back for thinking of it.\u00a0 Assholes.\u00a0 Why don’t they raffle off advertising space on the border fence instead?<\/p>\n

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A storm snuck up on us late last night.\u00a0 I was reading in my recliner in the family room with two dogs curled up on the couch next to me (Shatzi, of course, and Tink, another miniature dachshund we’re dogsitting).\u00a0 The storm announced itself with a stroke of lightning so bright I swear I could see the studs inside the walls and a crack of thunder so loud I was momentarily deafened — it must have hit within a house or two of us — and a few seconds later both the girls were in my lap.\u00a0 This morning my wife and daughter were tearing the house apart looking for our old cat, Chewie — they found her hiding back behind some shoeboxes in a closet.<\/p>\n

In celebration of Friday, I’m brining a chicken.\u00a0 A little rotisserie action tonight?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Might even give the dogs some.\u00a0 Here’s wishing you a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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