{"id":378,"date":"2008-09-25T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=378"},"modified":"2008-09-25T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:00:16","slug":"meet-john-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Meet John Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this little treat would be appropriate given the rapidly approaching Presidential elections here in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m talking about starts at 1:34, \u201cMeet John Brain\u201d.  The whole thing is just over 9 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kkQLyEGVbwg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kkQLyEGVbwg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It takes time and consideration to burrow through the nightly news broadcasts, the internet blogger sound bites, and the campaign\u2019s own spin.  Remember that ultimately it\u2019s you, alone in that voting booth, casting your vote.  Try to vote based on the issues you care about, and not by what has been on the cover of national magazines.  I know, it\u2019s hard!<\/p>\n<p>The big two are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/splash\/aid.html\"target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama <\/a>for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/ObamaSplash.html\"target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Republican Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, don\u2019t forget, although we make it harder than heck to get on the ballot if you\u2019re not from one of those parties, there are in fact other parties who generally have someone up for President as well.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lp.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">Libertarians<\/a> are running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lp.org\/barr-root\"target=\"_blank\">Bob Barr<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitutionparty.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Constitutional Party <\/a>has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baldwin08.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Chuck Baldwin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/votetruth08.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Cynthia McKinney<\/a> is representing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gp.org\/index.php\"target=\"_blank\">Green Party<\/a>, and of course, you can\u2019t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votenader.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t vote for the lab rat!  Or maybe do, the Brain might be your kind of leader.  Take a little time to learn about who wants to become our President!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the Animaniacs are out in DVD box sets.  They\u2019re totally worth the investment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this little treat would be appropriate given the rapidly approaching Presidential elections here in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}