{"id":1114,"date":"2009-06-10T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/the-world-according-to-beck.html"},"modified":"2009-06-10T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T11:29:00","slug":"world-according-to-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/world-according-to-beck.html","title":{"rendered":"The World According to Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/my-parents-are-on-drugs.html\">father&#8217;s truck<\/a> again yesterday, which was a huge help as mine was still recovering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/pining-for-grease-fittings.html\">multiple joint failures<\/a>.  However, once again I left the AM talk radio station tuned in.  I was listening to Glenn Beck for awhile.  Yet unlike some of the other guys he really doesn&#8217;t get me all jacked up.  He&#8217;s so freakin&#8217; loony that you just sort of smile that smile you give to the innocent and naive, except it doesn&#8217;t come with any urge to hug him.<\/p>\n<p>I learned several things about Beck&#8217;s beliefs during my short drive to the school to pick up my son:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glenn believes Obama is a despotic fascist bent on turning the U.S. into a socialist state.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Because as history teaches us, universal health care is high on any despot&#8217;s To-Do list.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Glenn is a firm supporter of our Constitution, except those parts that infringe on personal freedoms, like income tax and the Federal Reserve bank.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(My kids don&#8217;t take AP U.S. History until next year, so they probably haven&#8217;t studied the Constitution&#8217;s income tax amendment yet.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Glenn is opposed to slavery.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Careful, don&#8217;t get too far out on that limb!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Glenn feels marriage  is the building block of the universe, and same-sex marriage will destroy that.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(So apparently sexuality and marriage do not fall under the &#8220;personal freedoms&#8221; he holds so dear, or perhaps it is that personal freedoms have to give way to issues that will destroy the very fabric of existence, like gay marriage.  I guess  wasn&#8217;t paying close attention as there were two squirrels frolicking round the tree trunk while I waited for the light.  But don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m sure it was a boy squirrel and a girl squirrel.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fortunately it was just a short trip.  I&#8217;m not sure how much more edumacation I could take.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving my father&#8217;s truck again yesterday, which was a huge help as mine was still recovering from multiple<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/world-according-to-beck.html\" title=\"Read The World According to Beck\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}