{"id":1076,"date":"2001-10-18T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2001-10-19T01:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2001-10-18T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2001-10-19T01:40:17","slug":"absotively_posi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/18\/absotively_posi.html","title":{"rendered":"Absotively, posilutely nuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTFierce was commenting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/archive\/2001_10_01_archive.php#6400326\">one of my posts<\/a> on concerns that the whole Afghanistan thing might eventually go nuclear (though the US was not thought to be the party that would be involved).<\/p>\n<p>I demurred.<\/p>\n<p>Then I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\\Politics\\archive\\200110\\POL20011018d.html\">this<\/a>.  Granted that Indiana&#8217;s kind of a weird state, and Republicans are occasionally a bit hawkish, <i>is this guy <b>insane<\/b>?!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTFierce was commenting from one of my posts on concerns that the whole Afghanistan thing might eventually go nuclear (though the US was not thought to be the party that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137979,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/nuclear-powered-military-bases-what-could-go-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":1076,"position":0},"title":"Nuclear powered military bases? 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