{"id":171,"date":"2006-05-27T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-05-27T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T16:16:50","slug":"speeders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/speeders\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeders"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tend to like Tony Snow. Too bad he chose to axe his radio show.<\/p>\n

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OK, that’s out of the way. Now this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you’re not forever a speeder, are you?” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Huh? You kiddin’ me?<\/p>\n

Comparing that to an illegal immigrant is silly.<\/p>\n

Let’s adjust Tony’s comparison to make it fit illegal immigration a little better.<\/p>\n

I’m speeding. A police officer pulls up beside me and motions me to roll down my window. As we continue hurtling along at 86 mph<\/i>, he fines me $50. Then he drops back. I continue on at 86 mph while my wife accesses the Web and pays my fine online. And the scenery continues to fly by at 86 mph.<\/p>\n

Since he fined me and I paid my fine, am I no longer speeding despite exceeding the posted speed limit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tend to like Tony Snow. Too bad he chose to axe his radio show. OK, that’s out of the way. Now this: “If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you’re not forever a speeder, are you?” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner. Huh? … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/srJUJ-speeders","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}