{"id":458,"date":"2012-11-03T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-11-03T23:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:21:46","slug":"characteristic-that-results-in-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Characteristic that results in conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not racism, thick-headedness, stupidity, bigotry, or being a neanderthal.\u00a0 It&#8217;s being able to recognize absurdity.\u00a0 Seems like every day, I read something that is totally absurd and leaves me shaking my head in bewilderment.\u00a0 Not because somebody did it.\u00a0 In a country of 300 million people, or whatever the number is these days, there is going to be a little bit of everything.\u00a0 The confusing part is that it&#8217;s given serious treatment by the media and liberals accept it without realizing the world is going mad.<\/p>\n<p>The latest is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/somerville\/news\/x1292886201\/Somerville-aldermen-to-stop-using-illegals-for-undocumented-immigrants#ixzz2B4oFrId0\">this.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Somerville aldermen and Mayor Joe Curtatone agreed to refrain from using the word \u201cillegals\u201d when referring to people, at last week\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A team of youths came before the Board of Aldermen at last week\u2019s board meeting urging city officials to give immigrants who live in the city the respect they deserve as human beings by not using terms like \u201cillegals\u201d to describe undocumented people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Where does one start with this?\u00a0 Maybe the mayor should ask who the illegals are so he won&#8217;t offend them, then round them up when he finds out.\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably not possible, because the feds won&#8217;t allow it.\u00a0 Okay, another absurdity.\u00a0 Barring that idea, he should simply say they&#8217;re damn lucky they&#8217;re here and to STFU.\u00a0 Or tell the kids (not clear if the kids are illegal or just half-baked liberals adopting a cause that makes them feel they&#8217;re contributing something) how stupid they are and in time they&#8217;ll come to realize it.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Or just say, &#8220;That&#8217;s absurd, what&#8217;s wrong with you?&#8221;\u00a0 That would require the ability to recognize absurdity, which the mayor doesn&#8217;t possess.\u00a0 Nix that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not racism, thick-headedness, stupidity, bigotry, or being a neanderthal.\u00a0 It&#8217;s being able to recognize absurdity.\u00a0 Seems like every day, I read something that is totally absurd and leaves me shaking my head in bewilderment.\u00a0 Not because somebody did &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainstream-media","category-ramblings","category-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}