{"id":4131,"date":"2023-02-11T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2023-02-11T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T23:46:23","slug":"thats-what-you-get-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/02\/11\/thats-what-you-get-3\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s What You Get"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last few days has been spent watching the fallout from the Libertarian Party&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lp.org\/rage-against-the-war-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">epic rally next weekend in DC<\/a>.  The new chairwoman, who I sort of supported heading into the LP convention last summer has, and continues, to oversee the entire party drifting past the point of embarrassing its members to embarrassing everyone who&#8217;s ever associated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one of the featured speakers, who&#8217;s since bowed out, is a dude who was trying to pick up young teenage girls on Yahoo Messenger.  LMGTFY isn&#8217;t working anymore, but considering how old the story is, I&#8217;ll link the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-13089135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC story<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=1703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to stop paying attention, but things drift across my attention from time to time, and I dig in more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the people I&#8217;ve been paying attention to lately is Kyle Orton.  No, not the former NFL Quarterback, and inspiration for my college friend&#8217;s fantasy team name, &#8220;Orton hears a boo.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyleorton.substack.com\/p\/the-russian-orthodox-church-is-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russian Orthodox church<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a bunch of confused people been convinced by former-KGB into joining a religion that&#8217;s really there to serve whatever oligarch is running Russia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s a disturbing thought.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last few days has been spent watching the fallout from the Libertarian Party&#8217;s epic rally next weekend in DC. The new chairwoman, who I sort of supported heading into the LP convention last summer has, and continues, to oversee the entire party drifting past the point of embarrassing its members to embarrassing everyone who&#8217;s ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}