{"id":3647,"date":"2010-10-13T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2010-10-13T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:47:38","slug":"when-politicians-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"When Politicians Check Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
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<a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/narrative-therapy/">https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/narrative-therapy/</a> These loaded terms have come to define a narrative that seems to hold sway with Republicans running for office this year. As Ron Brownstein at the National Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/njmagazine\/print_friendly.php?ID=nj_20101009_9888\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/watch/"></a> <span> <a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/belbinteamroles360/">http://masterfacilitator.com/belbinteamroles360/</a>  On what is quite possibly the single biggest issue the planet has  faced, American conservatism has reached a near-unanimous position, and  that position is: pay no attention to all those scientists.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://ramedicare.com/private-label-services/"></a> If you look at the top of Climate Depot&#8217;s website (to the far left and far right), you&#8217;ll see the buzzwords in large type that Marc Morano unfailingly associates with climate science and global warming: FRAUD &amp; CLIMATE CON. [UPDATE: I see that Marc removed his latest climate &#8220;fraud&#8221; headline off the top left banner.]&#8230;<span> <a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/contact/">Buy Soma 350 Mg Online</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3647\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2556,2557,2561],"tags":[835,845,846,851],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-policy","category-climate-politics","category-climate-science","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-policy","tag-climate-politics","tag-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}