{"id":1086,"date":"2008-09-05T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2008-09-05T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T16:35:43","slug":"red-neck-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Red-Neck Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

62\u00a0 bar steady 29.88\u00a0 2mph\u00a0 WSW dew-point 54\u00a0 sunrise 6:40\u00a0 set 7:42<\/p>\n

Waxing Crescent of the Harvest Moon \u00a0 rise 1:14\u00a0 9:58<\/p>\n

And they packed up their bags, had one more martini for the road and dispersed to the south, east and west.\u00a0 The elephants have left the state.\u00a0 From way out here in Andover it hardly felt like they were here, except for the occasional dissing of Minnesota on the Colbert show. “Could Minnesota be any more white?”\u00a0 I suppose the event will go down as historic primarily for the introduction of the female rottweiler, Sarah Palin.\u00a0 She’s a gun-totin’, moose dressin’, pro-oil drillin’ and wolf killin’, state trooper firin’, gubernator and conservative from the only socialist state in the union*.<\/p>\n

*”In the state of Alaska, … citizens possess the seemingly unlikely combination of a rugged individualist reluctance to have the government meddle in their affairs with a willingness to accept a nearly $2,000 per Alaskan handout from the Alaska Permanent Fund. I’ve heard this combination referred to as “red neck socialism” and it’s a very Jacksonian, very American attitude.”\u00a0 from the Glittering Eye<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a red-faced son of the soil, a citizen of the Cherokee Purple Nation:<\/p>\n

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62\u00a0 bar steady 29.88\u00a0 2mph\u00a0 WSW dew-point 54\u00a0 sunrise 6:40\u00a0 set 7:42 Waxing Crescent of the Harvest Moon \u00a0 rise 1:14\u00a0 9:58 And they packed up their bags, had one more martini for the road and dispersed to the south, east and west.\u00a0 The elephants have left the state.\u00a0 From way out here in Andover … Continue reading Red-Neck Socialism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,100],"tags":[898,897,838,109],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-politics","tag-898","tag-alaska","tag-palin","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}