{"id":14133,"date":"2011-02-17T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T07:30:53","slug":"californias-state-mascot-the-super-nanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14133\/californias-state-mascot-the-super-nanny\/","title":{"rendered":"California’s State Mascot: the Super Nanny"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just throwing out a guess here, but I’ll bet man has been burning wood and creating fire for around 40,000 years.\u00a0 Fire: creator of warmth, food, light… you get the picture.\u00a0 Basically, it comes down to this: if you’re in the wild and you can’t get a branch lit, odds are your odds are short.<\/p>\n

Except, of course, here in\u00a0California.\u00a0 Here in California (State Motto: Don’t do Nuthin’ Till We Tell You the Right Way to Do It), the state in its infinite (and infinitely superior) wisdom, knows better.\u00a0 No, I’m serious.\u00a0 California (State Bird: the Red Ink Buttinski) actually thinks for us.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, the state of California (State Seal: the Finger\u00a0Wagging Nanny) states very clearly in this Warning found hanging by my firewood, that ideas and concepts are known<\/em> by it.<\/p>\n

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CA Warning Label<\/p><\/div>\n

All I can think of now is all the fires over all the millenia… those poor saps.\u00a0 Thank the god of Nannidom I’m taken care of here in\u00a0California (State Song:\u00a0“I’ll Be Watching You” by Sting… which is also the State MO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just throwing out a guess here, but I’ll bet man has been burning wood and creating fire for around 40,000 years.\u00a0 Fire: creator of warmth, food, light… you get the picture.\u00a0 Basically, it comes down to this: if you’re in the wild and you can’t get a branch lit, odds are your odds are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-mother","category-group-therapy","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9028,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9028\/the-cap-and-trade-bill-is-full-of-outrageous-proscriptions-on-private-property-rights-so-the-nar-is-campaigning-against-honest-appraisals-instead-of-fighting-the-growth-of-the-nanny-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":14133,"position":0},"title":"The “cap and trade” bill is full of outrageous proscriptions on private property rights — so the NAR is campaigning against honest appraisals instead of fighting the growth of the nanny state","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If you had your blast email spam from NAR President Charles McMillan, you know what's important to the Grand Poobahs: Appraisers are all of a sudden just too dang honest, and that's bad for business. 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