{"id":41354,"date":"2014-01-30T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41354"},"modified":"2014-01-24T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T04:23:01","slug":"41354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41354","title":{"rendered":"Rebranding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama celebrated the 41<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>with one curious omission \u2013 he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/22\/abortion-absent-white-house-roe-v-wade-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\">never mentioned the word \u201cabortion<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he dwelt on access to health care, reproductive freedom, right to privacy, safe and healthy communities, opportunities to fulfill their dreams . . . what a snooze.\u00a0 That same litany of mushy feel-good platitudes could roll across the Teleprompter any day of the week.\u00a0 We\u2019re here to talk about killing babies, something like 50 million of them since the decision was issued.\u00a0 And according to Democrats, that\u2019s a good thing. Fine, then say so.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost as if the President is afraid to speak the plain truth, for fear people will recoil from it.\u00a0 Perhaps we haven\u2019t been de-sensitized enough.\u00a0 Might be time to recycle some Dead Baby jokes from my junior high school days.\u00a0 Remember those?\u00a0 Can\u2019t remember the last time I heard a Dead Baby joke.\u00a0 Perhaps with 50 million of them piled up, it\u2019s not funny anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One can hope.<\/p>\n<p>How many Planned Parenthood executives does it take to change a light bulb?<\/p>\n<p>None. \u00a0They just declare darkness a woman&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama celebrated the 41st\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0Roe v. Wade\u00a0with one curious omission \u2013 he\u00a0never mentioned the word \u201cabortion.\u201d Instead, he dwelt on access to health care, reproductive freedom, right to privacy, safe and healthy communities, opportunities to fulfill their dreams . . . what a snooze.\u00a0 That same litany of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354","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=41354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354\/revisions\/41365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}