{"id":4840,"date":"2011-09-14T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-09-14T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:37:07","slug":"things-that-amuse-me-and-annoy-me-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/things-that-amuse-me-and-annoy-me-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that amuse me and annoy me this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Astrology is not for real.  Who would have thought? <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/almostdiamonds\/2011\/09\/14\/another-live-one\/\">There is discussion going on here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow points out that John Boehner tweeting a survey complaining about how most Americans are unhappy with the economy and think the country is on the wrong track, but did not tweet anything about te survey that says that &#8220;Americans prefer President Obama&#8217;s approach to the economy over Republicans. They like the American Jobs Act by 43-35, and when you break it down into parts &#8230; they like it even more&#8230;&#8221;  Very interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/09\/14\/7759058-john-boehner-wants-you-to-see-this\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Ed Brayton trying to cover up a conspiracy to hide nothing:  <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/dispatches\/2011\/09\/14\/republicans-freak-out-over-non-existent-gaffe\/\">Republicans Freak Out Over Non-Existent Gaffe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a chaplain runs a Christian concert as a chapel event, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s free exercise of religion. But, when a commanding general runs a Christian concert called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Commanding General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spiritual Fitness Concert,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and soldiers are punished for not attending this religious event, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a violation of the Establishment Clause. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/rodda\/2011\/09\/14\/thank-you-general-schwartz-for-finally-putting-your-4-star-foot-down\/\">But they fixed it. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Astrology is not for real. Who would have thought? There is discussion going on here. Rachel Maddow points out that John Boehner tweeting a survey complaining about how most Americans are unhappy with the economy and think the country is on the wrong track, but did not tweet anything about te &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/things-that-amuse-me-and-annoy-me-this-morning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things that amuse me and annoy me this morning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1g4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}