{"id":4680,"date":"2009-06-18T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2009-06-18T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T01:26:28","slug":"flying-in-the-face-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/flying-in-the-face-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying in the face of reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God in His wisdom made the fly<br \/>\nAnd then forgot to tell us why.<em><br \/>\nOgden Nash<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have reached an odd stage of un-civilisation when an organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/wtMostRead\/idUSTRE55H4Z220090618\" target=\"_blank\">criticises<\/a> the US president for \u201c<em>executing\u201d<\/em> a fly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president has been getting lots of kudos for a lightning-fast, Mr. Miyagi-worthy swipe he employed to slay a pesky house fly that was buzzing him in mid-interview during a taping with CNBC that aired Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling it an &#8220;execution,&#8221; wants the commander-in-chief to show a little more compassion to even &#8220;the least sympathetic animals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While ignoring his <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/What_are_Senator_Obama%27s_thoughts_on_partial_birth_abortion\" target=\"_blank\">support<\/a> for what is, to all intents and purposes, infanticide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama is overwhelmingly Pro-Abortion. He draws no line when a baby can be aborted. He believes in partial birth abortions and infanticide, allowing a baby from an induced labor abortion to die without treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. He was the only state senator to speak against this law on the floor of the Illinois Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely the eschaton is close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. Ogden Nash We have reached an odd stage of un-civilisation when an organisation criticises the US president for \u201cexecuting\u201d a fly: The president has been getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/flying-in-the-face-of-reason\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}