{"id":18898,"date":"2010-10-12T20:52:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=18898"},"modified":"2010-10-12T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:52:38","slug":"breaking-the-last-tyrannical-bonds-of-americas-hopeful-tyranny-or-something-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/breaking-the-last-tyrannical-bonds-of-americas-hopeful-tyranny-or-something-like-that.html","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Last Tyrannical Bonds of America&#8217;s Hopeful Tyranny &#8230; or something like that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if these guys win the award for Worst Graphic Design, Worse Font Selection (Too Many Fonts Division), Most Apocalyptic Music Ripping Off Carl Orff, Oddest Conflation of Evil Historic Leaders (Mao! LBJ! Both Roosevelts! Saddam! Carter!), Silliest Unawareness of Which Administration Passed Which Economic Stimulus and Bail-Out Packages,  Most Annoying Accusation of Upcoming Government Takeover (Since Bill Clinton, Who Everyone Likes Now), or Least Optimized Use of Flash (you have to actually click through to their site to see it, which will give you a chance to also consider Poorest Emulation of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Writing as a subcategory).\u00a0 But I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re going to win something.<\/p>\n<p>Just hope it&#8217;s not the election.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Na4tISrcNU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if these guys win the award for Worst Graphic Design, Worse Font Selection (Too Many Fonts Division), Most Apocalyptic Music Ripping Off Carl Orff, Oddest Conflation of Evil Historic Leaders (Mao! 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