{"id":5065,"date":"2005-06-07T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T06:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2005-06-07T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T06:26:49","slug":"earth-to-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"EARTH TO JIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What planet are you on now?  From a <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44629\">WND column<\/a> on &#8220;How and why we&#8217;re going to win&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the media, 8 million bloggers \u2013 and websites like WorldNetDaily \u2013 are starting to supplant the giant TV networks and newspapers. In education, homeschools have broken the National Education Association monopoly. In entertainment, G-rated films have mushroomed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bloggers, home education, and G-rated movies?  Ummm, no.  For pushing opinions,  blogging is terrific.  For gathering hard news, we all rely on the MSM.  I know HE&#038;OS can&#8217;t afford to have a Beijing Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that the NEA is quaking in their boots over home education.  Growth has slowed dramatically, and it&#8217;s just a matter of time until the union organizes charters and the cybers.  <\/p>\n<p>And when was the last time a major studio released a G-rated film?  Even the kiddie flick &#8220;Racing Stripes&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/vine\/showthread.php?t=367300\">garnered<\/a> a PG.<\/p>\n<p>Now the whole point of his column is that some type of Pentecostal movement (he never really says what kind) is going to sweep the Earth and sieze political power here.  I&#8217;m not wishing him luck as I have a feeling I wouldn&#8217;t like his brand of <strike>theocracy<\/strike> &#8220;turn-back-the-clock&#8221; conservatism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What planet are you on now? From a WND column on &#8220;How and why we&#8217;re going to win&#8221; In the media, 8 million bloggers \u2013 and websites like WorldNetDaily \u2013 are starting to supplant the giant TV networks and newspapers. In education, homeschools have broken the National Education Association monopoly. In entertainment, G-rated films have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}