{"id":40936,"date":"2014-01-03T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40936"},"modified":"2014-01-03T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:13:18","slug":"the-last-five-years-have-felt-a-bit-like-a-biblical-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40936","title":{"rendered":"The Last Five Years <i>Have<\/i> Felt A Bit Like A Biblical Plague&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s the start of a new year, when Christians remember The Flight Into Egypt.\u00a0 Suppose President Obama were to read about it in the Bible.\u00a0 He might notice modern parallels.<\/p>\n<p>The Wise Men were looking for a New King, someone to fundamentally change the government.\u00a0 Herod was already King and didn\u2019t want to be replaced.\u00a0 He ordered all sons under the age of two, to be killed.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama, reading this, might realize Jesus was predicted to oppose government.\u00a0 That makes Him a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/start.umd.edu\/start\/publications\/research_briefs\/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">bitter-clinging-religious-terrorist<\/a>.\u00a0 Herod\u2019s Massacre of Innocents was simply an Executive Order preemptively issued for National Security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose President Obama, inspired by historical precedent, issued his own Executive Order that all White-Males-Two-And-Under should die.\u00a0 But since there are so many sons and so few federal government employees to kill them, suppose the Order included an Employer Mandate: all employers are required to kill the White-Male-Two-And-Under sons of their employees, or be fined out of business.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose some employers claimed that a government mandate to kill children of employees violated the employer\u2019s religious beliefs under some ancient fringe religion, something about \u201cThou Shalt Not Kill.\u201d\u00a0 And not just churches that employ janitors, but businesses that employ people to sell fried chicken or woodworking tools or cabinetmakers, suppose they objected, too.<\/p>\n<p>If a Supreme Court Justice stopped the killing until the Court could hold a hearing, would the New York Times tut about threatening the security of the nation?<\/p>\n<p>If the Employer Mandate didn\u2019t require Employers to actually kill the sons, merely to hire someone else to kill the sons for them, would that be okay?<\/p>\n<p>If the Department of Hunting Sons (DHS) issued a rule saying certain employers were exempt from killing one-and-two-year-olds, they only need to kill unborn sons to comply with the law, would that make it all better?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s it going to take to get these fundamentalist whackos to see The Light?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to start calling Democrats &#8220;Obama Fundamentalists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe &#8220;Bitter, Obama-Clinging Fundamentalists&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It\u2019s the start of a new year, when Christians remember The Flight Into Egypt.\u00a0 Suppose President Obama were to read about it in the Bible.\u00a0 He might notice modern parallels. 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