{"id":10593,"date":"2015-08-18T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2015-08-18T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:23:00","slug":"nuke-the-muslims-stick-to-ag-policy-mr-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10593","title":{"rendered":"Nuke the Muslims? Stick to ag policy, Mr. Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sid-miller.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10594\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sid-miller.png\" alt=\"sid miller\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sid Miller wouldn&#8217;t like this comparison; then again, neither would the man with whom I am making the comparison.<\/p>\n<p>But the current Texas agriculture commissioner is making as many waves with his\u00a0occasionally goofy\u00a0behavior as former Ag Commissioner Jim Hightower.<\/p>\n<p>Miller&#8217;s Facebook page recently featured a social media statement that said the United States has been at peace with Japan since Aug. 9, 1945 &#8212; when we dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki; then the post said &#8220;It&#8217;s time we made peace with the Muslim world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Does that mean he supports the idea of dropping nuclear bombs on Muslim nations? To be fair, Miller or his staff did not post the item, nor did Miller personally share it. But they aren&#8217;t going to apologize for its appearance on his department&#8217;s Facebook page. As the Texas Tribune reported: &#8220;The commissioner has no plans to figure out which of his staffers shared the posting, or to apologize, (Miller spokesman Todd) Smith said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The social media post has drawn the expected criticism. Indeed, this kind of message borders on the unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>Nuke the <em>Muslim world?<\/em> Does this guy really mean to obliterate all of it?<\/p>\n<p>Good grief! We&#8217;re engaged in a death struggle with Muslim <em>extremists<\/em>, religious perverts &#8212; who do not represent the majority of those who worship one of the world&#8217;s great religions.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is on a trade mission in China. I&#8217;ve got an idea: Why don&#8217;t you stick to promoting Texas agricultural products overseas, commissioner?<\/p>\n<p>Outrageous social media posts have this way of diverting the commissioner from\u00a0the message he was elected to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Miller wouldn&#8217;t like this comparison; then again, neither would the man with whom I am making the comparison. But the current Texas agriculture commissioner is making as many waves with his\u00a0occasionally goofy\u00a0behavior as former Ag Commissioner Jim Hightower. Miller&#8217;s Facebook page recently featured a social media statement that said the United States has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuke the Muslims? Stick to ag policy, Mr. Miller<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2477,5352,3175,4270,5353,4728,5302],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-jim-hightower","tag-muslim-world","tag-nagasaki","tag-sid-miller","tag-texas-agriculture-department","tag-texas-tribune","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}