{"id":1179,"date":"2007-04-24T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/24\/what-i-hate\/"},"modified":"2007-04-24T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T03:47:03","slug":"what-i-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/24\/what-i-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"what I hate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"150\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/files\/images\/ScottBloch_0.content.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Bloch\" title=\"Scott Bloch\" \/>In my last post, I read the L.A. Times article about the investigation of Rove, and felt excited. Was it possible that there would be a real investigation. So I wrote my first few paragraphs? Then I looked up the <strong>Office of Special Counsel<\/strong>. I wondered, &quot;Had someone found an Agency uncontaminated by the Administration?&quot; and wrote some more. Then, I put Scott Bloch into <strong>Google<\/strong>, and found that others had already discovered that he was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/22000\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Republican Operative<\/strong><\/a> extrordinaire.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">What I <u><strong>hate<\/strong><\/u> is being put in the position of being cynical enough these days to be <strong>Googling<\/strong> Scott Bloch immediately to be sure this isn&#8217;t a fraudulent investigation to run out their clock in office and cover-up the whole thing. I <u><strong>hate<\/strong><\/u> that they&#8217;ve done this to us &#8211; turned us into a bunch of reflex paranoids. Only, unfortunately, we&#8217;re &quot;pseudo-paranoid,&quot; because, as usual, our skepticism and suspicions turn out to be right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I read the L.A. Times article about the investigation of Rove, and felt excited. Was it possible that there would be a real investigation. So I wrote my first few paragraphs? Then I looked up the Office of Special Counsel. I wondered, &quot;Had someone found an Agency uncontaminated by the Administration?&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}