{"id":396,"date":"2006-10-22T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/396"},"modified":"2006-10-22T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T14:13:30","slug":"heritage-not-hate-wellokayhate-too-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/396","title":{"rendered":"Heritage, Not Hate.  Well&#8230;Okay&#8230;Hate Too.  Mostly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A patriot speaks out&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesmanreview.com\/breaking\/story.asp?ID=7701\">Anti-gay sign goes up in Post Falls<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Jim Valentine lumps gay people and pedophiles together. And he doesn&rsquo;t want any of them living in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>The Post Falls business owner posted a message in bold letters on his reader board this morning: &ldquo;Peds queers fags your (sic) in Idaho now&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s what northbound drivers on Pleasantview Road see when they drive past the sign for his landscape supply and horse-boarding business, Dixie Services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And&#8230;guess who&#8217;s flag he&#8217;s flying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;People are kind of numb. I think they need to wake up a little bit,&rdquo; said Valentine, who drives classic cars emblazoned with the Confederate flag. One has a horn that plays &ldquo;Dixie.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes Jim&#8230;people are kind of numb.&nbsp; And you&#8217;re kind of a numbskull.&nbsp; Well&#8230;I hear Idaho has its share of folks who greatly admire the Third Reich and fly the swastika, and never mind that the closest they&#8217;ve ever been to Germany is a side order of sauerkraut.&nbsp; Why not idiots who love the Antebellum south and fly the confederate flag too.&nbsp; Maybe he&#8217;ll take confederate money in exchange for his services.<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder what southerners think of all this. &nbsp; Ex governor of Virginia, senate candidate and all around racist prick George Allen grew up in California, yet his college dorm was festooned with&nbsp; confederate battle flags, and the occasional noose.&nbsp; He&#8217;s as southern as a Hollywood riverboat, but he longs for Dixie just like Jim does.&nbsp; Like all those northwestern American Slavs, Saxons and Jutes dressing up in their brownshirts and swastikas, fantasizing themselves pure blond-haired Aryan stock and longing for the Vaterland.&nbsp; And come to think of it, Hitler was an Austrian anyway, not a German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patriot speaks out&#8230; Anti-gay sign goes up in Post Falls Jim Valentine lumps gay people and pedophiles together. And he doesn&rsquo;t want any of them living in Idaho. The Post Falls business owner posted a message in bold letters on his reader board this morning: &ldquo;Peds queers fags your (sic) in Idaho now&hellip;&rdquo; That&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}