{"id":1071,"date":"2010-08-29T02:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T02:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=511"},"modified":"2010-08-29T02:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T02:32:40","slug":"30-minutes-to-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"30 minutes to doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rte 90 Run-N-Gun Tour <\/em>cont.: \u00a0 We stopped at the National Park Service’s Minuteman Missile Headquarters<\/strong> just outside Cactus Flat, South Dakota. \u00a0 Among the displays here, was the simulated flight course of a Minuteman nuclear missile from southern South Dakota to Moscow. \u00a0 It would take 30 minutes. \u00a0 Chilling. \u00a0 At the height of the Cold War, there were 150 Minuteman missile sites in South Dakota. \u00a0 Each missile could deliver a payload equal to 60% of all<\/em> \u00a0 bombs dropped during World War II… \u00a0 We then headed east to Murdo (pop. 550, including this one poet guy.) \u00a0 While I was passing out campaign literature on the street, I came across M.J. McMillan. \u00a0 He read the campaign card about me being a “common man,” and replied: \u00a0 “Wow, that’s what I write about.” \u00a0 Turns out he’s written two books of poetry titled: \u00a0 Common Man Poetry<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 and Common Man Poetry 2<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0 He recited a short, four-line poem that’s essence was that one can experience sunshine, or rain, dependent, not necessarily on the weather, but rather your perspective. \u00a0 Common sense… \u00a0 After putting up one more flier on Murdo’s downtown community bulletin board, we headed to Pesho, S.D. and then Chamberlain, S.D. where we passed out yet more campaign literature. \u00a0 One man-on-the-street said running for president must be some undertaking. \u00a0 “Yeah, it’s an uphill thing,” I joked. \u00a0 “And we’re not even sure if we’ve gotten to the hill yet.” \u00a0 But we are sure that we got to Mitchell, S.D. by sunset. \u00a0 \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I just read where China’s one-child policy has been in effect for 30 years now, resulting in some 130 million abortions. \u00a0 Because many of the babies being killed are girls, some are calling it ‘gendercide.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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