{"id":50367,"date":"2015-05-05T23:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/the-terroristic-horror-of-the-definite-article.html"},"modified":"2015-05-05T23:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:34:39","slug":"the-terroristic-horror-of-the-definite-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/the-terroristic-horror-of-the-definite-article.html","title":{"rendered":"The Terroristic Horror of the Definite Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, just as everything that starts with &quot;The&quot; in North America is &quot;bad news.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The KKK. The Black Panthers. The Catholic Church. The Sound of Music. The Republican Party. The Cat in the Hat.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, please, Lindsey, throw your hat into the GOP Ring for 2016. The clown car still has a bit of room left in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.655115'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LQu3PKP4b7EYnHDbrzhsu00DFB8Q5WDkI_GcUJBgPcPO65Qjdmf4w3A0R1sGnHqLhc9rH2tW15aMNU5Ek__Su6nI6om4z598FKSjiNJaPwH_pn5vw-ktmCTnBXZ5A8LAgnSi2RIJeCF8BCj1rZPtuQ7WJDBuvGw6PkEDLgI7Z7VF7yqdlMeRnfM=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.655115'>Senator Lindsey Graham: Everything that starts with &lsquo;Al&rsquo; in the Mideast is bad news &#8211; Diplomacy and Defense<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSpeaking at an AIPAC dinner, the likely Republican presidential candidate reiterated threat to cut UN funding if Security Council acts against Israel.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/f8w8SDnkLUJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, just as everything that starts with &quot;The&quot; in North America is &quot;bad news.&quot; The KKK. The Black Panthers. The Catholic Church. The Sound of Music. The Republican Party. The Cat in the Hat. Yes, please, Lindsey, throw your hat into the GOP Ring for 2016. The clown car still has a bit of room &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/the-terroristic-horror-of-the-definite-article.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Terroristic Horror of the Definite Article&#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-50367","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":46173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/lindsey-graham-speaks-the-truth-for-once.html","url_meta":{"origin":50367,"position":0},"title":"Lindsey Graham speaks the truth for once","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Oct-14 11:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yup. \"If I get to be president, white men in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.\" Of that I have no doubt.(Oh, don't worry, it's just a \"joke.\") Lindsey Graham: \u2018White Men In Male-Only Clubs Are Going To Do Great In My Presidency\u2019 (Audio) South Carolina\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":49813,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/lindsey-graham-is-sounding-a-little-coup-coup.html","url_meta":{"origin":50367,"position":1},"title":"Lindsey Graham is sounding a little coup-coup","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Mar-15 6:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Surely he was joking, right? Obviously, of course.One has to wonder what Sen. 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