{"id":1003,"date":"2009-04-24T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2009-04-23T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T22:02:59","slug":"why-texas-is-welcome-to-secede-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Why Texas is welcome to secede from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pgKepHebKRc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pgKepHebKRc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Chu\" target=\"_blank\">Secretary of Energy <\/a>being questioned here has a nobel prize in physics and a PhD from Berkeley.\u00a0\u00a0Barton was so proud of himself afterwards he put up this message on twitter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"barton juice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/moransincongress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Barton single handedly shows why we shouldn&#8217;t have Texans OR Christians in government.\u00a0 (Adrienne, you might want to check out what Joe Barton did to fight the Combating Autism Act&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Joe Barton has received over a million dollars from the oil industry.\u00a0 Glad we&#8217;ve got one of us regular Joe 6-packs representing us on the\u00a0 <strong>House Committee on Energy and Commerce.\u00a0 I wish I was making this up&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep in mind the Secretary of Energy being questioned here has a nobel prize in physics and a PhD from Berkeley.\u00a0\u00a0Barton was so proud of himself afterwards he put up this message on twitter: Joe Barton single handedly shows why we shouldn&#8217;t have Texans OR Christians in government.\u00a0 (Adrienne, you might want to check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}