{"id":3250,"date":"2016-02-23T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2016-02-23T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:27:30","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been preoccupied the past few days but, just so&#8217;s you know, this country&#8217;s Right is still stark raving mad.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2016\/02\/republicans-decide-boycott-supreme-court-vacancy-does-remind-you-anyone\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Drum wonders<\/a> what&#8217;s up with the Republican announcement that they aren&#8217;t even going to hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee put forward by President Obama.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The obvious question is: Why refuse to even hold hearings? That just makes Republicans look sullen and obstructionist. Why not hold hearings normally, drag them out a little bit, and then vote down whoever Obama nominates? The result is the same, but Republicans look more like senators and less like small children throwing a temper tantrum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, I can explain <i>that<\/i>: Their base hates Obama more than it loves their country.  A Nigra!  And a Moozlim!  From Hahverd!  In OUR WHITE HOUSE!!<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Albert Mohler is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2016\/02\/23\/the-briefing-02-23-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">distressed<\/a> by Pope Francis&#8217; remarks suggesting it might be permissible for couples in the Zika-zone to use contraceptives.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Once you make human conscience, the individual conscience, the determining issue in terms of a moral decision or, for that matter, a theological question, then every conscience can become a law unto itself. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, obviously, it undermines <s>society<\/s> the church if people go around making their very own judgments about things. So &#8230; shut-up and do as the theologians tell you to do, for y&#8217;all are no damn good.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Michelle Bachmann, blinking-neon loony, has a cozy conversation with David Barton, <i>bona fide<\/i> pseudo-historian.  Seriously: Don&#8217;t gag on the smarmy unctuousness.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BJNDPTggHu4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Alex Jones is locked in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/i-want-tear-them-limb-limb-alex-jones-goes-war-trumps-demonic-foes\" target=\"_blank\">titanic death struggle<\/a> with the demons determined to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/alex-jones-theyre-going-kill-donald-trump-part-false-flag-operation\" target=\"_blank\">assassinate Donald Trump<\/a>, or something like that.  The good news is that Vladimir Putin is on his side.<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wondered for years: Are these guys crazy, or are they cynical whores who specialize in servicing the crazy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been preoccupied the past few days but, just so&#8217;s you know, this country&#8217;s Right is still stark raving mad. Kevin Drum wonders what&#8217;s up with the Republican announcement that they aren&#8217;t even going to hold hearings on any Supreme &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}