{"id":756,"date":"2008-01-24T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:19:17","slug":"are-you-a-democrat-republican-or-southerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/are-you-a-democrat-republican-or-southerner\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Democrat, Republican, or Southerner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me this oldie but goodie&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are you a Democrat, Republican, or Southerner?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a little test that will help you decide.<br \/>\nThe answer can be found by posing the following question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, and raises the knife and charges at you.\u00a0 You are carrying a 40 cal Glock, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Democrat&#8217;s Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, that&#8217;s not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor!<br \/>\nOr oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?<br \/>\nCould we run away?<br \/>\nWhat does my wife think? What about the kids?<br \/>\nWhat does the law say about this situation?<br \/>\nWhy am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?<br \/>\nDoes he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?<br \/>\nShould I call 9-1-1?<br \/>\nWhy is this street so deserted? We need to raise taxes, have paint and weed day and make this a happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Republican&#8217;s Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nBANG!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southerner&#8217;s Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!<br \/>\nBANG! BANG! BANG!<\/p>\n<p>Click&#8230;.. (Sounds of reloading)<\/p>\n<p>BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!<br \/>\nBANG! BANG! BANG!<\/p>\n<p>Click<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Daughter: &#8216;Nice grouping, Daddy!\u00a0 Were those the Winchester Silver Tips or Hydra-shock hollow points?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Son: Can I shoot the next one!<br \/>\nWife: You Ain&#8217;t Taking That To The Taxidermist!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me this oldie but goodie&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Are you a Democrat, Republican, or Southerner? Here is a little test that will help you decide. The answer can be found by posing the following question: You&#8217;re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic terrorist with a huge<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/are-you-a-democrat-republican-or-southerner\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}