{"id":40834,"date":"2013-12-31T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40834"},"modified":"2013-12-29T20:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T02:38:04","slug":"its-not-pining-for-the-bloody-fjords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40834","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Pining For The Bloody Fjords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leftists despair when their own principles collide, leaving it impossible to decide who to hate.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\n<p>We all want clean energy.\u00a0 Windmills seem like the perfect answer, opposed only by Conservatives who love Big Coal.\u00a0 Hate Conservatives, right?<\/p>\n<p>Except birds fly into the blades and are killed, including protected species like the American Bald Eagle.\u00a0\u00a0 In November, Duke Energy was fined\u00a0a million dollars for killing birds at its wind farms.\u00a0 So hate Progressives who promote wind farms?\u00a0 Or hate companies that produce clean energy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=40835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40835\" title=\"image001 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image001-2.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image001-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On December 9<sup>th<\/sup>, Obama\u2019s Interior Department released new rules giving wind farms a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/6\/obama-issues-permits-wind-farms-kill-more-eagles\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">30-year permit to kill birds<\/a>, including bald eagles. \u00a0So hate President Obama?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if a Republican president had done this.\u00a0 No wonder Liberals are distraught these days.\u00a0 It\u2019s just so hard to know who to hate.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it&#8217;s the only thing you actually create, you can understand why they get touchy about doing it right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Leftists despair when their own principles collide, leaving it impossible to decide who to hate.\u00a0 Example: We all want clean energy.\u00a0 Windmills seem like the perfect answer, opposed only by Conservatives who love Big Coal.\u00a0 Hate Conservatives, right? Except birds fly into the blades and are killed, including protected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40837,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions\/40837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}