{"id":44,"date":"2006-01-23T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/scandal-is-that-like-a-dice-game-or-something\/"},"modified":"2006-01-23T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T17:44:15","slug":"scandal-is-that-like-a-dice-game-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Scandal? Is That Like a Dice Game or Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GRBJ0531.gif\" title=\"GRBJ0531.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0531.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Originally published in                 the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal,<\/em> January 16, 2006<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p class=\"body2\">This week&#8217;s comic relates to a whole bunch of Washington crappola with a dash of West Michigan hypocrisy. I don&#8217;t know how much you&#8217;ve been able to follow along with the Jack Abramoff\/lobbyist scandal, but it summarizes as this: the amount of swindling is almost too dense to comprehend; to save our mental health most of us have avoided the details and simply comforted ourselves with the thought that Mr. Abramoff is going straight to Hell and taking a goodly amount of congress with him (not that Tom Delay wasn&#8217;t already heading that way).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body2\">Right. Well part of all this is an Indian casino gambling connection and an ongoing effort by a local tribe to build a new casino here in West Michigan. I personally don&#8217;t want it because it&#8217;s stupid. (You&#8217;d expect a more reasoned logic from me, wouldn&#8217;t you?) Others in West Michigan don&#8217;t want it here because of its sinfulness. But then many have no problem with going to Detroit to gamble there. See? Too much to think about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, January 16, 2006 This week&#8217;s comic relates to a whole bunch of Washington crappola with a dash of West Michigan hypocrisy. I don&#8217;t know how much you&#8217;ve been able to follow along with the Jack Abramoff\/lobbyist scandal, but it summarizes as this: the amount of swindling is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}