{"id":22,"date":"2006-07-26T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T10:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-04-22T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T14:36:33","slug":"pee-pee-pants-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/22","title":{"rendered":"Pee-pee pants conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home from work yesterday listening to the radio, I heard tape of ace toady Pat Roberts (R-Lickspittle), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, emitting his infamous quote, &#8220;I would only point out that you really don&#8217;t have any civil liberties if you&#8217;re dead.&#8221;\u009d As I came to instant boil, I thought of some of the folks that would disagree with Mr. Roberts&#8217; outlook if they were here &#8211; probably not respectfully &#8211; Patrick Henry comes to mind. Then I looked at the license plate on the car ahead of me. I&#8217;ve always thought that our state motto was a little over the top; I no longer feel that way. John Stark&#8217;s full toast is: &#8220;Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils<em>.<\/em>&#8221; It would be nice if some of the bozos currently selling our institutions down the river in order to provide themselves ass-cover should something bad happen again could keep this in mind, but given the evidence they have provided over the past five years &#8211; ain&#8217;t going to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home from work yesterday listening to the radio, I heard tape of ace toady Pat Roberts (R-Lickspittle), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, emitting his infamous quote, &#8220;I would only point out that you really don&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/22\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}