{"id":30362,"date":"2012-09-26T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/two-not-quite-on-topic-observations.html"},"modified":"2012-09-26T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:19:51","slug":"two-not-quite-on-topic-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/two-not-quite-on-topic-observations.html","title":{"rendered":"Two not-quite-on-topic observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Once Barack Obama (or whoever is president) stops making <i>me<\/i> pay for stuff that <i>I<\/i> morally object to, through my <i>taxes<\/i> &#8212; such as drone attacks with such a high civilian casualty rate, or killing US citizens without due process, or a variety of other things <i>I<\/i> find to be wrong &#8230; once we reach an agreement about which\u00a0morally objectionable things we shouldn&#39;t be forced to pay for, on a national basis &#8230; <i>then<\/i> I&#39;ll pay attention to this particular complaint.<\/p>\n<p>2. Anyone, <i>anyone,<\/i> who makes a dog-whistling point of spelling out the President&#39;s middle name as part of their critique of his actions loses all credibility. You&#39;re being a jerk. Grow up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100419209457758501564'>Donald Mclaughlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\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.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2012\/sep\/26\/government-not-god-pac\/pac-ad-says-obama-will-force-christian-groups-pay-\/'><\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cowQznhuj4o' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Once Barack Obama (or whoever is president) stops making me pay for stuff that I morally object to, through my taxes &#8212; such as drone attacks with such a high civilian casualty rate, or killing US citizens without due process, or a variety of other things I find to be wrong &#8230; once we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/two-not-quite-on-topic-observations.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two not-quite-on-topic observations&#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":[],"class_list":["post-30362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35168,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/religious-liberty-religious-imposition-and-sigh-contraception.html","url_meta":{"origin":30362,"position":0},"title":"Religious liberty, religious imposition, and (sigh) contraception","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-May-13 11:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So an initial caveat first: strictly speaking denying insurance coverage is not the same as denying someone obtaining a medical service. 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