{"id":41747,"date":"2014-02-12T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41747"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T18:05:17","slug":"object-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41747","title":{"rendered":"Object Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Just a couple of things from the news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crises, Crises Everywhere:\u00a0 <\/strong>Some libs claim that conservatives are &#8220;paranoid&#8221;\u00a0for planning ahead against massive public dislocation in the event of major crises.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;it&#8217;s only\u00a0paranoia if it&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/panicked-shoppers-fight-over-food-amid-snowpocalypse\/\">fully justified by the minor crises<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Your Neck Forever: <\/strong>Some libs claim that conservatives are &#8220;paranoid&#8221; for not trusting government &#8211; especially government&#8217;s intentions toward dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;it&#8217;s only paranoia if it&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/mediatrackers.org\/ohio\/2014\/02\/10\/ohio-national-guard-training-envisions-right-wing-terrorism\">absolutely accurate and true<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imperious<\/strong>:\u00a0 Some libs say conservatives are &#8220;paranoid&#8221; for concerning themselves with Barack Obama&#8217;s expansion of presidential powers.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/davidsteinberg\/culture-based-law-enforcement-how-obama-changes-his-bill-with-no-fear-of-prosecution\/\">it&#8217;s only paranoid if it&#8217;s not playing out righit in front of us\u00a0as we speak<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or if our country weren&#8217;t developing a two-tiered law-enforcement system &#8211; one for the political haves, one for the political have nots &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/02\/11\/bill-de-blasio-called-cops-to-spare-pastor-pal-from-jail\/\">before our very eyes<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>On\u00a0 Your Neck, Forever &#8211; Part II<\/strong>:\u00a0 Some libs claim that conservatives are &#8220;parnaoid&#8221; &#8211; or\u00a0 even &#8220;traitors&#8221; &#8211; for believing that government and its agents need to be strictly limited, lest it run amok.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;it&#8217;s only paranoia if it&#8217;s not virtually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=cops+shoot+service+dog&amp;src=IE-SearchBox&amp;FORM=IE8SRC\">a physical law<\/a>.\u00a0 And if this is treason, then it&#8217;s the same &#8220;treason&#8221; our Founding Fathers engaged in.<\/p>\n<p>No, you heard me right &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxaustin.com\/story\/22761533\/apd-officer-shoots-kills-dog-inside-store\">virtually a physical law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2014\/02\/12\/eight-police-officers-fire-103-times-at-two-unarmed-women-delivering-newspapers-commission-rejects-calls-for-any-officer-to-be-fired-or-even-suspended\/\">it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of things from the news. Crises, Crises Everywhere:\u00a0 Some libs claim that conservatives are &#8220;paranoid&#8221;\u00a0for planning ahead against massive public dislocation in the event of major crises. I say &#8220;it&#8217;s only\u00a0paranoia if it&#8217;s not fully justified by the minor crises&#8220;.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Your Neck Forever: Some libs claim that conservatives are &#8220;paranoid&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747","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=41747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41751,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747\/revisions\/41751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}