{"id":23575,"date":"2011-11-09T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/did-you-ever-stop-to-think-that-people-just-thought-it-was-a-really-bad-law.html"},"modified":"2011-11-09T21:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T04:37:16","slug":"did-you-ever-stop-to-think-that-people-just-thought-it-was-a-really-bad-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/did-you-ever-stop-to-think-that-people-just-thought-it-was-a-really-bad-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Did you ever stop to think that people just thought it was a really bad law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, of course you didn&#39;t. It was all the fault of Planned Parenthood, the Media, the &quot;Culture of Death,&quot; and, of course, the Kingdom of Satan.  And, so, the &quot;Personhood&quot; folks plan to reintroduce the bill to Mississippi again. And again. And again. And, of course, fight for its passage elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me welcomes their wasting their money this way. Part of me worries that, rolling the dice, it might just succeed, with all the promised pain and problems that would bring. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/personhood-initiative-defeated-satan-wins'>Personhood Initiative Defeated, &quot;Satan Wins&quot; | Right Wing Watch<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPersonhood Initiative Defeated, &quot;Satan Wins&quot;. Submitted by Brian Tashman on November 9, 2011 &#8211; 12:00pm. Mississippi Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, who was elected as governor yesterday, also co-chair&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, of course you didn&#39;t. It was all the fault of Planned Parenthood, the Media, the &quot;Culture of Death,&quot; and, of course, the Kingdom of Satan. And, so, the &quot;Personhood&quot; folks plan to reintroduce the bill to Mississippi again. And again. And again. And, of course, fight for its passage elsewhere. Part of me welcomes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/did-you-ever-stop-to-think-that-people-just-thought-it-was-a-really-bad-law.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did you ever stop to think that people just thought it was a really bad law?&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23563,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/mississippi-i-salute-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":23575,"position":0},"title":"Mississippi, I salute you","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Nov-11 9:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I really didn't think Mississippi had it in them when it came to defeating that godawful Personhood Amendment.I was wrong.Now, maybe it's all just a setup for something even worse, but I'll take the national victory where I can get it. #ddtb Embedded Link Mississippi Voters Reject Personhood Amendment Mississippi\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":23620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/it-aint-over-til-its-well-it-aint-never-over.html","url_meta":{"origin":23575,"position":1},"title":"It ain&#39;t over &#39;til it&#39;s &#8230; 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