{"id":14817,"date":"2009-05-18T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14817"},"modified":"2009-05-18T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:03:18","slug":"my-loving-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/my-loving-liberal.html","title":{"rendered":"My Loving Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margie called up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.am760.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">the local progressive radio station<\/a>, prompted by discussion about all the GOPpers ranting about (in the context of Supreme Court justice nominees) the evils of &#8220;empathy,&#8221; being &#8220;emotional,&#8221; and having &#8220;a bad day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her cogent comment, once on the air: &#8220;Those are all code words for reasons why women wouldn&#8217;t make good Supreme Court justices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to hover over the web page and see if I can point to the official stream so that everyone can enjoy it. Stay tuned &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My wife. I think I&#8217;ll keep her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margie called up the local progressive radio station, prompted by discussion about all the GOPpers ranting about (in the context of Supreme Court justice nominees) the evils of &#8220;empathy,&#8221; being &#8220;emotional,&#8221; and having &#8220;a bad day.&#8221; Her cogent comment, once on the air: &#8220;Those are all code words for reasons why women wouldn&#8217;t make good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/my-loving-liberal.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Loving Liberal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[12,14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-love-and-marriage","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45669,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/the-supreme-court-must-be-doing-something-right.html","url_meta":{"origin":14817,"position":0},"title":"The Supreme Court must be doing something right","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Oct-14 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If their decision not to take on the appeals of cases against the various federal circuit courts on marriage by gays is causing apoplexy amongst Bryan Fischer, the Liberty Counsel, the Family Research Council, the National Organization for Marriage, Focus on the Family, and the Faith and Freedom Coalition, then\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":45975,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/the-supreme-court-isnt-always-about-landmark-cases-you-know.html","url_meta":{"origin":14817,"position":1},"title":"The Supreme Court isn&#039;t always about landmark cases, you know","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Oct-14 2:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, there are usually some important principles involved (in this one, religious freedom vs security), but the subject of the debates can be pretty trivial-sounding. 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We don't need no stinking federal court rulings!\" Because state nullification worked so well last time.And for such (pardon me) bullshit rationales:The Alabama court ruled state bans on gay marriage aren't discriminatory since they ban both men and women from marrying people of the same sex, and\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":133897,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/supreme-court-rules-grandmothers-are-close-relatives-for-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":14817,"position":5},"title":"Supreme Court rules grandmothers are close relatives (for now)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-17 1:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"SCOTUS voted to accept for the moment a Hawaiian federal judge's ruling that the Trump's re-revised Muslim-ish Ban on grandparents and grandchildren was not within what they had intended in their previous court order.That court ruled that close family included grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}