{"id":3983,"date":"2012-10-15T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2014-11-06T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:02:53","slug":"why-i-am-not-fond-of-republicans-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"Why I am not fond of Republicans these days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not some fringe moron but a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Broun\">Republican representative<\/a> for Georgia&#8217;s 10th district. Member of the Tea Party caucus. And a physician to boot:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBy3MbP4WDo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Groan. I guess I must be a servant of the Devil then (go, Lucifer!) as I, too, spread the &#8220;lie from the pit of hell&#8221; called the Big Bang theory. Or the lie called &#8220;evolution&#8221;. Or the lie called &#8220;embryology&#8221; (that&#8217;s a new one for me; would you know what&#8217;s wrong with embryology from a Tea Party perspective?) What next, write down the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedmann_equations\">Friedmann equations<\/a>, be burned at the stake?<\/p>\n<p>Now this is why, even if everything you told me about Obama and his Chicago lot was the gospel truth, I&#8217;d still prefer them over Republicans these days. I&#8217;d rather take 21st century corruption than go back to the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me wonders (hopes, even) that this is just a cynical attempt to attract votes and he is not actually this stone dumb stupid. But I don&#8217;t know what it says about the Republican party these days if these are the kinds of votes its representatives go after.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3983' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not some fringe moron but a Republican representative for Georgia&#8217;s 10th district. Member of the Tea Party caucus. And a physician to boot: Groan. I guess I must be a servant of the Devil then (go, Lucifer!) as I, too, spread the &#8220;lie from the pit of hell&#8221; called the Big Bang theory. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3983' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-politics","category-science","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}