{"id":8895,"date":"2010-10-09T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/09\/end-socializum-in-amerka-todai\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T10:59:51","slug":"end-socializum-in-amerka-todai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/09\/end-socializum-in-amerka-todai\/","title":{"rendered":"End Socializum in Amerka Todai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that the gummit says I caint supposed to burn trash in my own damn yard.  An, I just larnt my tax dollars pay for socializt gummit things like the fur department and po-lees.  This has gotta stop now, elsewize we may have a need to x-plore second amendment remiteez!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBecause this is the world we really want to live in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast week, Paulette and Gene Cranick&#8217;s grandson started a fire in a burn barrel outside the couple&#8217;s Tennessee home.<\/p>\n<p>He added garbage, then went inside to take a shower. A few minutes later, he noticed an adjacent shed was engulfed in flames. It didn&#8217;t take long for the fire to spread to the house.<\/p>\n<p>The South Fulton City Fire Department arrived, but because the Cranicks hadn&#8217;t paid a $75 fire service subscription fee, they refused to spray an ounce of water on the flames &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors protested. Some of them offered to pay the firefighters thousands of dollars. Ultimately, the Cranicks lost everything, including three dogs and a cat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2010\/10\/08\/130436382\/they-didn-t-pay-the-fee-firefighters-watch-tennessee-family-s-house-burn\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of their neighbors said they brought this up&#8217;en upon thems selves. Damn right. Tiz their right to burn their own house down, and we don&#8217;t want not sozialized fire de-partments round these parts!<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, go read the article.  There actually is a conversation going on as to whether or not our fire departments should be socialized, or rather, part of the equation of have vs. have not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that the gummit says I caint supposed to burn trash in my own damn yard. An, I just larnt my tax dollars pay for socializt gummit things like the fur department and po-lees. This has gotta stop now, elsewize we may have a need to x-plore second amendment remiteez!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306,3868],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2jt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895"}],"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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}