{"id":3189,"date":"2006-06-24T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2017-12-16T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T12:55:56","slug":"enthusiasm-tempered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/24\/enthusiasm-tempered\/","title":{"rendered":"Enthusiasm, Tempered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2006\/06\/why_i_love_australia.html\" target=\"_new\">Why I Love Australia<\/a>&quot;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God, I love Australia. Where else do you have a shadow health minister with such, er, starch? Of course I&#8217;m prejudiced, having married an Australian, but how not to like a country, in this age of sniveling grubs worldwide, whose treasurer suggests to any person who &#8220;wants to live under sharia law&#8221; to try Saudi Arabia and Iran, &#8220;but not Australia.&#8221; He was elaborating on an earlier suggestion that &#8220;people who &#8230; don&#8217;t want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear off.&#8221; Contrast this with Canada, historically and culturally Australia&#8217;s commonwealth twin, where last year Ontario actually gave serious consideration to allowing its Muslims to live under sharia law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Australia, the beloved, features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunsandcrime.org\/aussiegc.html\" target=\"_new\">strict gun control<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38896\" target=\"_new\">sword control<\/a> policies.  Let&#8217;s not forget that while we laud the plucky Australians for their collective spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer, &quot;Why I Love Australia&quot;: God, I love Australia. Where else do you have a shadow health minister with such, er, starch? Of course I&#8217;m prejudiced, having married an Australian, but how not to like a country, in this age of sniveling grubs worldwide, whose treasurer suggests to any person who &#8220;wants to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18685,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}