{"id":4369,"date":"2009-07-21T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2009-07-21T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:02:44","slug":"culture-warriors-southish-and-westish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/07\/21\/culture-warriors-southish-and-westish\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Warriors, South(ish) and West(ish)"},"content":{"rendered":"

a Missouri, car dealer, is offering a voucher for a free AK-47 for every pick-up truck bought in August.
\n<\/em>Auto sales have been absolutely clobbered–down 28% year over year–so the government, dealers, and auto makers are coming up with all sorts of inventive ways to attract business.
\n<\/em>Mark Muller, owner of [look it up yourownself]<\/span><\/em>, said the program builds on an earlier offer where customers had a choice between a $250 gas voucher or a gun voucher of the same value. An AK-47 can cost twice as much. Muller calls the initial deal an overwhelming success. He also says it generates a lot of publicity and really angers “liberals.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Builds on an earlier offer”?\u00c2\u00a0 So we have an escalation going on here?<\/p>\n

Supposing that the\u00c2\u00a0state of\u00c2\u00a0Iran has designs on a nuclear weapons program, they should go ahead and scrap it.\u00c2\u00a0 In a few\u00c2\u00a0of years, they’ll be able to pick up a nuclear missile with purchase of a pick-up truck.<\/p>\n

In other culture war news, there’s this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the second consecutive weekend, about 100 people gathered to stage a “kiss-in” to protest the treatment of two gay men cited for trespassing July 9 after they shared a kiss on the plaza owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both gay and straight couples exchanged kisses during the protest.
\nDemonstrators were greeted at the south entrance by a group of protesters carrying large signs that denounced homosexuality, prompting a heated verbal exchange.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]Matt Aune has said he and his partner, Derek Jones, exchanged a modest kiss at the plaza 11 days ago, but church officials contend their behavior was lewd.<\/em><\/p>\n

“There was much more involved that a simple kiss of the cheek,” Farah said in a statement Friday. “They engaged in passionate kissing, groping, profane and lewd language, and had obviously been using alcohol.”
\nThe men have said they were walking home from a nearby concert and cutting through the plaza on their way home.
\nA police report said they sat down for a kiss and were approached by a pair of church security guards, who asked them to leave because their behavior was “unwanted.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a Missouri, car dealer, is offering a voucher for a free AK-47 for every pick-up truck bought in August. Auto sales have been absolutely clobbered–down 28% year over year–so the government, dealers, and auto makers are coming up with all sorts of inventive ways to attract business. Mark Muller, owner of [look it up yourownself], […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}