{"id":129513,"date":"2016-01-20T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/thank-you-congress-for-keeping-us-safe-from-um-english-journalists.html"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:54:22","slug":"thank-you-congress-for-keeping-us-safe-from-um-english-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/thank-you-congress-for-keeping-us-safe-from-um-english-journalists.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Congress, for keeping us safe from &#8230; um &#8230; English journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, let us show our toughness and resolve by inconveniencing normal people who might want to visit the US and spend their money here and build good relations and things like this, all out of fear that some of them might be swarthy, bearded guys with curved knives and a thirst for American blood, because that happens <i>all the time!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ugh. Sorry, foreign folk. Our current Congress is a bunch of ditzes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/jan\/19\/bbc-journalist-stopped-from-flying-to-us-over-uk-iranian-nationality?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OadtCY62aoaVwdliAZJ2a7WdLkqMhD3wipGDpiQv3R-aA2SUWqv4wf0gHzoLXOp_MEjBDX9wCaQWFZCZsD1oAd2QPMjVpXJXJdyMB8dqVTrh3e2ALsx5Pey5rW3LozL8AJq86Nyq1GlZ0xLvnwcGg-dzWknPOaJyfi3SPBGtVAikuOVJgFrBN1PIIm28epiXFIe-9RgvRUuu7QCUJxe4QkSbzK42TCrV-3ss0x_bY_3Ex7SaTcwIuk08nqc=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/jan\/19\/bbc-journalist-stopped-from-flying-to-us-over-uk-iranian-nationality?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B'>BBC journalist stopped from flying to US over UK-Iranian nationality | UK news | The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Ln3DsjhfXiA'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, let us show our toughness and resolve by inconveniencing normal people who might want to visit the US and spend their money here and build good relations and things like this, all out of fear that some of them might be swarthy, bearded guys with curved knives and a thirst for American blood, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/thank-you-congress-for-keeping-us-safe-from-um-english-journalists.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thank you, Congress, for keeping us safe from &#8230; um &#8230; English journalists?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31355,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/13\/congress-its-not-just-for-old-straight-white-christian-men-any-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":129513,"position":0},"title":"Congress: It&#39;s Not Just for Old Straight White Christian Men Any More","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Nov-12 6:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Congress: It's Not Just for Old Straight White Christian Men Any MorePretty darned remarkable.Reshared post from +Think ProgressMeet the new members that will make the 113th Congress the most diverse EVER http:\/\/thkpr.gs\/SjyfvO Embedded Link INFOGRAPHIC: The 113th Congress Will Be The Most Diverse In History Though Congress remains whiter, older,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/if-congress-was-your-co-worker.html","url_meta":{"origin":129513,"position":1},"title":"If Congress Was Your Co-Worker","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Nov-16 7:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Funny. 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