{"id":54596,"date":"2014-08-16T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54596"},"modified":"2014-08-16T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:11:05","slug":"just-when-you-think-youve-seen-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54596","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Think You&#8217;ve &#8220;Seen It All&#8221; . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . something happens to make you realize you haven&#8217;t.\u00a0 Lit this bit of manifest idiocy from LA:<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Los Angeles weighs cash incentive<br \/>\nin bid to boost voter turnout<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you read that correctly.\u00a0 LA is actually thinking of offering some form of cash incentive to get people to vote.\u00a0 The proposal envisions some form of lottery system to dispense cash to at least some who voted.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me.\u00a0 But if someone has to be <em>paid<\/em> to get up off their dead a** and vote, I&#8217;m not really sure I <em>want<\/em> to see them voting at all. I also wonder how this is going to square with the various laws against offering cash\/other things of value for votes.<\/p>\n<p>You haven&#8217;t heard the best part yet, though.  <em>The proposal comes from the LA Ethics Commission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/08\/16\/los-angeles-weighs-cash-incentive-in-bid-to-boost-voter-turnout\">I sh!t you not.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . something happens to make you realize you haven&#8217;t.\u00a0 Lit this bit of manifest &hellip; <a title=\"Just When You Think You&#8217;ve &#8220;Seen It All&#8221; . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54596\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just When You Think You&#8217;ve &#8220;Seen It All&#8221; . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,5,13,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-politics","category-society","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}