{"id":25667,"date":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/24\/florida-chickens-have-come-hom\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:56:00","slug":"florida-chickens-have-come-hom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/florida-chickens-have-come-hom\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida chickens have come home to roost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over that last day or so, tons of BP oil have been removed from Florida beaches. The news shows people who live along the beaches crying.  Sorry, Floridians, I do not cry for you.  I cry for the clams, but not the people.  You put that oil there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nYou may or may not remember your part in stealing the election and putting the Oilman Bush in office, with the help of your governor, another Oilman Bush.  You may or may not have noticed that you play a large role in determining the outcome of national elections, and thus helped re-elect Oilman Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is being said about it now, but I&#8217;m convinced that the Era of Faux Regulations, the eight year period when regulatory agencies were internally told to shut down many of their operations, will ultimately be to blame for the BP oil spill. Florida  is as responsible for those eight years as any other factor.   Floridians, this oil is yours.  Enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, I get that I am being harsh.  But no matter what I say, it can not be as bad as the oil, and if I&#8217;m very very wrong, I can&#8217;t be as wrong as the voters of the sunshine state.  <strong>And if you have a problem with me blaming an entire state and all its residents for being <a href=\"http:\/\/shii.org\/knows\/Get_A_Brain_Morans\"><em>morans<\/em><\/a>, you need to read <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/about.php#YourState\"><em>this<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over that last day or so, tons of BP oil have been removed from Florida beaches. The news shows people who live along the beaches crying. Sorry, Floridians, I do not cry for you. I cry for the clams, but not the people. You put that oil there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4412,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6FZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}