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I don’t know if there’s been a sudden and massive cold wave somewhere ordinarily associated with fire and brimstone, but that’s at least as likely as having actually heard Daniel Schorr on All Things Considered<\/em> say<\/a>, regarding Bush and Iraq and Democracy in the Middle East that, “He may have had it right.”<\/p>\n

Given Schorr’s general hostility toward Dubya and the US adventure in Iraq, that’s akin to hearing Sean Hannity talk about how Hillary Clinton might “have it right” on national health care. Could’ve pushed me over with a feather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if there’s been a sudden and massive cold wave somewhere ordinarily associated with fire and brimstone, but that’s at least as likely as having actually heard Daniel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":331,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/hot_chick.html","url_meta":{"origin":7451,"position":0},"title":"Hot Chick","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-May-03 4:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fun profile of Jack Chick, the guy behind those ubiquitous Chick's Tract micro-comics which promise fire and brimstone for unbelievers (as defined by Chick). 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