{"id":27444,"date":"2012-04-18T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/van-side-advocacy.html"},"modified":"2012-04-18T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:57:30","slug":"van-side-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/van-side-advocacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Van-side advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m often fascinated by folks who decide to use their vehicles &#8212; beyond a bumper sticker or two (though that&#39;s an interesting discussion in and of itself) for making political arguments, of whatever stripe. I suppose it&#39;s no different from having a blog or something, only a lot more &quot;real world,&quot; and possibly more likely to lead to a direct confrontation with someone who disagrees with you.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, like a blog, it&#39;s useful if you&#39;re actually <i>accurate<\/i> about what you&#39;re declaring.  As opposed to:<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;President OBAMA &#8211; If the Health Care Reform Plan is so <b>Great<\/b> Why does it <b>EXEMPT<\/b> YOU, Michelle Obama, Congress, Senators and their families? (Page 114 Line 22)&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve seen this incorrect bandied about the Internet before.  It appears to have made its way to someone&#39;s van, too. (Hint to van painters: try fact checking, first; Sean Hannity doesn&#39;t count.)  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash4%2F374810_250198208382482_100001769154998_599494_1246222907_n.jpg%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D300' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/17\/obamacare-making-stuff-up-to-complain-about\/'>ObamaCare:  Making stuff up to complain\u00a0about<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCollected on Facebook, April 16, 2012: Here\u2019s the text from H.R. 3200, the Affordable Care Act, on page 114.\u00a0 Where\u2019s the language this guy complains about? 17 \u2018\u2018(b) LIMITATIONS ON&#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>I&#39;m often fascinated by folks who decide to use their vehicles &#8212; beyond a bumper sticker or two (though that&#39;s an interesting discussion in and of itself) for making political arguments, of whatever stripe. I suppose it&#39;s no different from having a blog or something, only a lot more &quot;real world,&quot; and possibly more likely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/van-side-advocacy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Van-side advocacy&#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],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":27444,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":27444,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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