{"id":1412,"date":"2012-09-17T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2013-01-16T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T23:08:27","slug":"1412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Ohio stumping; Tanzania atrocity; an extremist?; dark culture; colliding cross currents…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some more vignettes from our recent Buckeye Back Roads Tour:\u00a0 In Beaverdam, Ohio (Well, if you don’t carry Beaverdam, you’re not going to carry the country.), I put up a campaign flier at the local market.\u00a0 Then at Benroth Body Shop, just a few miles west of here on Route 30, I talked with owner Todd Benroth.\u00a0 He said he believes if Americans go in to protect a country, “…we should get paid.”\u00a0 …And it’s the Albino people in Tanzania who could currently use some protecting.\u00a0 In Gallion, Ohio, Fr. Robert Hauss (who does mission work in Africa) said the Albinos are absolutely “hated” in Tanzania, and continually subject to rape, dismemberment and murder.\u00a0 Fr. Hauss said when he talks about this on, say, radio shows in the U.S., the interviewers will often be aghast.\u00a0 Fr. Hauss, however, said he often follows this up by saying the same thing goes on here on an even much wider scale — with the killing of unborn babies.\u00a0 I once saw a bumper sticker in Mansfield, Ohio, that read: \u00a0“Call me an extremist, but I think dismembering babies in their mothers’ wombs is wrong.”<\/strong>\u00a0 During a talk at the University of Notre Dame several years ago, I said, basically, that we are a society gone mad…\u00a0 In Bucyrus, Ohio, I, in a rather impromptu fashion (I’m like that), sat in on a weekly Bible study.\u00a0 These guys, too, were talking about how “dark” our culture is getting with abortion, redefining marriage, the breakdown of the family in general, sex and violence in the media, sex and violence on the streets…\u00a0 It’s sure not ‘Mayberry’<\/em> anymore.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 The New York Times<\/em> today noted that the current Mideast protests are “…swept up in the colliding cross currents or regional politics.”\u00a0 That is in the wake of the Arab Spring, people there are freer to protest in general.\u00a0 Also, the “War on Terror,” while supposedly only targeting fundamental extremism, sometimes appears to be a war on Muslims in general (from the general populaces’ perspective there).\u00a0 As a result, the controversial film mocking the Muslim religion is sparking a push back.\u00a0 During the Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter said many things playing out on an international stage can seldom be summed up in a TV political ad sound byte.\u00a0 But rather they embody, more often than not, a complex set of circumstances that need considered analysis and measured action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some more vignettes from our recent Buckeye Back Roads Tour:\u00a0 In Beaverdam, Ohio (Well, if you don’t carry Beaverdam, you’re not going to carry the country.), I put up a campaign flier at the local market.\u00a0 Then at Benroth Body …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}