{"id":1625,"date":"2003-06-30T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2003-06-30T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:49:00","slug":"lunatics-running-the-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/06\/30\/19\/49\/lunatics-running-the-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunatics Running the Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more choice God-related items to go with <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_06_29_WeekArchive.php#105700457138305622\">Bush&#8217;s apparent schizophrenia<\/a>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2003-04-01-bush-cover_x.htm\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush believes he was called by Go<br \/>\nd to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans, <\/a><a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_03_30_WeekArchive.php#92003229\">a close friend who talks with Bush every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/news\/2003\/03\/1579123.php\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George W. Bush rises ahead of the dawn most days &#8230; he goes off to a quiet place to read alone. His text isn?t news summaries or the overnight intelligence dispatches &#8230; [instead] it?s a book of evangelical mini-sermons, ?My Utmost for His Highest.? &#8230; Bush told religious broadcasters that ?the terrorists hate the fact that&#8230; we can worship Almighty God the way we see fit,? and that the United States was called to bring God?s gift of liberty to ?every human being in the world.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Attorney General Ashcroft ritually anoints himself daily with &#8220;holy&#8221; Crisco-brand cooking oil <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/us\/HallsOfJustice\/hallsofjustice63.html\"><i>because the &#8220;ancient kings of Israel, David and Saul&#8221; had done so<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_06_29_WeekArchive.php#105700457138305622\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more choice God-related items to go with Bush&#8217;s apparent schizophrenia: Bush believes he was called by Go d to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a close friend&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}