{"id":194,"date":"2013-05-21T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/21\/not-the-time-or-place-for-blame"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:51:00","slug":"not-the-time-or-place-for-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Not the time or place for blame"},"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>You know \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I subscribe to the time-and-place theory of keeping one\u2019s mouth shut. That is, I dislike intensely those who toss spit wads from the cheap seats whenever horrific tragedy strikes and they start laying blame for its cause.<\/p>\n<p>Two cases come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>One of them involves lefties who are saying that the Moore, Okla., tornado is the result of manmade global warming. The air is so full of carbon emissions that the storms emanating from weather systems have grown in intensity and, thus, we see events such as the one that devastated Moore on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, maybe not. <\/p>\n<p>The other comes from the other side of the spectrum, specifically from a pulpit used by a well-known TV preacher who \u2013 and this one is just stunning \u2013 said on the 700 Club that the Moore twister occurred because the good folks there didn\u2019t pray enough. Pat Robertson has just uttered only the latest in a string of ridiculous utterances involving perceived consequences brought to those who don\u2019t, in his mind, pay enough attention to God.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a link to the idiocy that came out of Robertson\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/society\/video-pat-robertson-blames-tornado-victims-not-praying\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/society\/video-pat-robertson-blames-tornado-victims-not-praying\">http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/society\/video-pat-robertson-blames-tornado-victims-not-praying<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There might be a time to assess responsibility for what has devastated many thousands of lives and destroyed people\u2019s property. President Obama said today that the folks in Moore will have \u201cgrief to absorb\u201d before they begin the mind-numbing task of rebuilding their community.<\/p>\n<p>Why not just let these folks grieve, mourn, weep, comfort each other and begin the long journey back from their misery? There will be a time to ponder all the rest of it. Now is not that time.<\/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>You know \u2026 I subscribe to the time-and-place theory of keeping one\u2019s mouth shut. That is, I dislike intensely those who toss spit wads from the cheap seats whenever horrific tragedy strikes and they start laying blame for its cause. Two cases come to mind. One of them involves lefties who are saying that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not the time or place for blame<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}