{"id":3829,"date":"2011-01-10T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2011-01-10T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:28:35","slug":"when-insanitea-is-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/when-insanitea-is-for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"When InsaniTEA Is for the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019ve heard several theories for the spate of bird deaths, worldwide.&#160; None of them make a whole lot of sense to me, but the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican Party have come up with the most absurd I have heard to date.&#160; God is killing the birds as vengeance against the world for America\u2019s repeal of DADT!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10deadbird\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10deadbird\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/10deadbird.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Cindy Jacobs of Generals International posted a new video prompted by the fact that, as a prophet, people have been asking her about the meaning behind the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/09\/weekinreview\/09gorman.html\" target=\"_blank\">rash of bird deaths<\/a> &#8230; to which she replied that it might be due to the fact that America is violating God&#8217;s prohibition on homosexuality with support for gay marriage and the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V17WGTvPHGg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V17WGTvPHGg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/jacobs-birds-are-dying-because-dadt-repeal\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Republicans offer you tea, don\u2019t touch it!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard several theories for the spate of bird deaths, worldwide.&#160; None of them make a whole lot of sense to me, but the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican Party have come up with the most absurd I have heard to date.&#160; God is killing the birds as vengeance against the world for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/when-insanitea-is-for-the-birds\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}