{"id":904,"date":"2005-11-13T03:36:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T01:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2005-11-13T03:36:58","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T01:36:58","slug":"if-cheneys-for-torture-why-not-use-it-on-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/13\/if-cheneys-for-torture-why-not-use-it-on-scooter\/","title":{"rendered":"If Cheney’s for torture, why not use it on Scooter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

TheStar.com – If Cheney’s for torture, why not use it on Scooter?<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a must-read. Hilarious and very smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TheStar.com – If Cheney’s for torture, why not use it on Scooter? This is a must-read. Hilarious and very smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-eA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1555,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/call-waterboarding-torture\/","url_meta":{"origin":904,"position":0},"title":"call waterboarding torture?","author":"nathaniel","date":"10 November 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Off-topic, but I have to put this out there. 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Pension fund for artists - nice idea. \"A new company called Mutual Art has created a pension fund for artists, which they fund by 'investing' artworks rather than cash.\" Google\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1255,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/andrew-sullivan-is-very-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":904,"position":3},"title":"Andrew Sullivan is very cool","author":"nathaniel","date":"03 July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not, and probably will never consider myself, a \"conservative\" - tho I know not what that means in today's American climate. 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And it went mostly quickly and quietly, except for the \"liberal\" lefty blogger base.These crazy opponents to Bush's new bill, which passed in the Senate 65-34, actually believe that Bush should not be able to legally torture or hold detainees permanently,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1319,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/project-censored-top-25-stories-of-2007-that-you-won%e2%80%99t-hear-about\/","url_meta":{"origin":904,"position":5},"title":"Project Censored: Top 25 Stories of 2007 (that you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear about)","author":"nathaniel","date":"16 September 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"via C&L: #1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran#3 Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US#5 High-Tech Genocide in Congo#6 Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy# 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news and politics"","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}