{"id":5267,"date":"2012-07-26T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T16:06:38","slug":"theres-that-word-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5267","title":{"rendered":"There’s that word again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I doan theen it mean what you theen it mean. <\/em><\/p>\n

“I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals,” Obama said. “That they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, as I have said many times before, is the issue I have with “belief” It is possible to “believe” the most ridiculous and outlandishly ignorant things, that can easily be demonstrated to be false.<\/p>\n

If you’re a cousin humping yokel in the backwoods of Red State America, and you “believe” in UFO’s, you’re obviously a nutjob (Though someone will come along and offer you a TV show if you look ugly and sound stupid enough, witness “Sons of Guns”)<\/p>\n

If, on the other hand, you “Believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers”, and you’re the president of the USA, people will flock to you, awaiting your bidding, because if you’re ignorant enough to vote for that monstrosity, you’ll “Believe” anything. And frankly, I’m hardly surprised.<\/p>\n

Though, before I bet on gun owners saying “You know, you’re right! I do sort of wish I couldn’t buy an AK-47, because they really ARE for soldiers” I will be looking for the spacecraft full of Nomes. <\/p>\n

Aside; having gone through the rest of Pratchett, the Bromeliad is a wondrous little trilogy, and I will try to get the Oglet to read it; it will do a good job of showing her that a once great people, brought to the level of subsisting on other people’s garbage, can return to their former glory. it is a lesson I hope she never has to learn firsthand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I doan theen it mean what you theen it mean. “I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals,” Obama said. “That they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.” This, as I […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}