{"id":202,"date":"2006-04-11T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=202"},"modified":"2006-04-11T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T19:03:58","slug":"fi-fie-fo-fumblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Fi Fie Fo Fumblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has brought the following <a href=\"http:\/\/fifiefoefum.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/liberal-bias-in-boggersphere.html\">rant<\/a> to my attention. There&#8217;s little point in arguing with an organisation whose sole purpose is to criticise the views and statements of another organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedominstitute.org\">(the FI)<\/a> but I&#8217;d like to make a few points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FFFF&#8217;s listing of Gaisan as a pro GOP blog is misleading. Gaisan isn&#8217;t pro\/contra anything political. The opinions on this blog are personal and have nothing to do with Gaisan.<\/li>\n<li>I have never said I was pro-Bush in any of my blog posts. I have however endeavoured to illustrate the idiotic fallacies of those who are <em>blindly<\/em> anti-Bush as childish ramblings. The man isn&#8217;t perfect but it&#8217;s not fair to say he&#8217;s an idiot. <\/li>\n<li>I would not have voted for Bush Sr. or Jr. had I been given the opportunity to do so. This is substantially different from the reductionism of a &#8220;goodies versus baddies&#8221; approach which characterises most of the personal attacks from Fi Fie&#8230; I liked Clinton &#038; Al Gore. Equally I have huge respect for Colin Powell who I believe should have been the US&#8217; first black president. He has the intellect and integrity that becomes a great statesman.<\/li>\n<li>There isn&#8217;t any great crusade on this blog to do anything except air an opinion. I live in a democratic country and I&#8217;m therefore free to do that.<\/li>\n<li>I like Richard Waghorne&#8217;s Sicilian Notes although I do not necessarily agree or condone all opinions expressed. It&#8217;s called freedom of choice and <a href=\"http:\/\/siciliannotes.blogspot.com\">Richard Waghorne<\/a> understands that, unlike some.<\/ul>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve got that off my chest I can go back to hacking software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has brought the following rant to my attention. There&#8217;s little point in arguing with an organisation whose sole purpose is to criticise the views and statements of another organisation (the FI) but I&#8217;d like to make a few points: FFFF&#8217;s listing of Gaisan as a pro GOP blog is misleading. Gaisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}