{"id":470,"date":"2012-07-19T22:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T04:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=470"},"modified":"2012-07-19T22:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T04:58:01","slug":"470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Mind in Wisconsin Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Pierce at Esquire posted a screen cap of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/scott-walker-noahs-ark-tweet-10818834\" title=\"Noah's Ark tweet\">tweet from Governor Scott Walker<\/a> (R-WI):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine if Noah needed help from the government to build the ark.  It might have never been built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A couple of things: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It <i>was<\/i> never built. Can&#8217;t you recognize a fairy tale when you hear one?<\/li>\n<li>In the fairy tale, it was done with the direct supervision of the &#8220;government,&#8221; though in this case the government was a petulant prick named Jehovah (or Yahweh, or Yoohoo, depending on who you ask) with no redeeming qualities.<\/li>\n<li>Said petulant prick&#8217;s tax scheme included <i>the life of a child<\/i> (before that was revealed to have been a sadistic practical joke).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Let&#8217;s play a game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine if John L. Savage needed help from the government to build the Hoover Dam.  It might have never been built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine if J. Robert Oppenheimer needed help from the government to build the atomic bomb.  It might have never been built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine if Neil Armstrong needed help from the government to build the <i>Apollo 11<\/i> space vehicle.  It might have never been built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine if J. C. R. Licklider needed help from the government to build the internet.  It might have never been built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All interesting facts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Pierce at Esquire posted a screen cap of a tweet from Governor Scott Walker (R-WI): Imagine if Noah needed help from the government to build the ark. It might have never been built. A couple of things: It was never built. Can&#8217;t you recognize a fairy tale when you hear one? In the fairy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}