{"id":531,"date":"2006-08-02T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2006-08-15T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:18:20","slug":"crunchy-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Crunchy conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Souchery who called me once\u00c2\u00a0from his Radio Show after\u00c2\u00a0I performed\u00c2\u00a0voodoo<\/a> wrote this about common sense<\/a>. I think he’s completely in denial about the effect of global warming\u00c2\u00a0from our burning millions of tons of fossil fuels every day. Perhaps Joe has discovered that he can leave\u00c2\u00a0his dog in a sealed up car on a hot day because somehow the UV light flooding in the windows doesn’t turn\u00c2\u00a0into infrared radiation because he doesn’t use the cigarette lighter. But I digress. Anywho,\u00c2\u00a0Joe’s discovered that he’s considered a “crunchy conservative.”<\/p>\n

Good for him. I turn off the lights too when there’s a heat wave.\u00c2\u00a0I also close the drapes during the day,\u00c2\u00a0open the windows at night, turn off my computer when I’m not using it\u00c2\u00a0and brew my coffee outside rather than trap more heat in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Of course, contrary to the headline in Joe’s piece not all “comman sense” is all that sensible. For instance, while it sound sensible to fight terrorists abroad rather than at home it doesn’t make sense if you don’t take the ancient Greek myth about the Hydra into account. You’ve probably heard of it -\u00c2\u00a0about\u00c2\u00a0the monster who grew two new heads every time one was cut off.<\/p>\n

Now that we are seen as cheering on Israel’s bombardment of civilians in Lebanon we can expect new bin Ladins to emerge.\u00c2\u00a0Too bad our troops “over there” are beginning to lose their morale. Its hot in Iraq too. I hope the troops\u00c2\u00a0turn off their appliances\u00c2\u00a0whenever they go out to patrol Baghdad.<\/p>\n

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Joe Souchery who called me once\u00c2\u00a0from his Radio Show after\u00c2\u00a0I performed\u00c2\u00a0voodoo wrote this about common sense. I think he’s completely in denial about the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environmental-change","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}