{"id":126,"date":"2004-12-09T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-12-09T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T17:00:44","slug":"flaming-liberals-are-incendiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/12\/09\/flaming-liberals-are-incendiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming liberals are incendiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>I really try to stay out of political debate. Everyone&rsquo;s got their opinions, and most of them aren&rsquo;t going to change. But I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/indyweek.com\/durham\/current\/news.html\">this article<\/a> from <em>The Independent Weekly<\/em>, and had to post it.  I discourage any of my conservative friends from reading it, though I realize you will anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leaders like G.W. and (yes, it&rsquo;s a fair comparison) Hitler rise to power by exploiting the support of the weak and stupid, so it&rsquo;s in their interest to encourage weakness and stupidity. That&rsquo;s where universal education becomes a threat. Education encourages creative thought. Creative thought empowers people. Fascists hate creative thought. So it&rsquo;s incredibly convenient for the GOP that you folks actually want your kids to be dumb. Which is why the No Child Left Behind initiative you endorse has, in fact, done nothing! Happy? Perhaps ignorance really is bliss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a much, much lighter note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gucomics.com\/archives\/view.php?cdate=20041209\">this made me shoot milk out my nose<\/a>, if I&rsquo;d been drinking milk, anyway.  I mean, what&rsquo;s lighter than <em>Hello, Kitty<\/em>?  It&rsquo;s so light, it&rsquo;s almost gone all the way around to the dark side, really.  Oh, and speaking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/view.php3?date=2004-11-29&amp;res=l\">dark side&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really try to stay out of political debate. Everyone&rsquo;s got their opinions, and most of them aren&rsquo;t going to change. But I ran across this article from The Independent Weekly, and had to post it. I discourage any of my conservative friends from reading it, though I realize you will anyway. Leaders like G.W. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}