{"id":549,"date":"2005-10-31T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2005-10-31T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T17:55:00","slug":"549","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dubya versus the dark forces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My visitor numbers shot way up three days ago: it turns out that my Hurricane Katrina-related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2005\/09\/starhawk-is-our-jesse-jackson-i-dont.html\">discussion of Starhawk&#8217;s public statement<\/a> was linked to by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/war.htm\">a conservative Catholic webzine<\/a>. The context: whether the president is battling spiritual darkness, or whether both popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI were more correct in opposing the Iraq adventure. <\/p>\n<p>So, welcome, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">Spirit Daily<\/a> readers. And do read the whole post. And click the links.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/george+w+bush\" rel=\"tag\">George W. Bush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/starhawk\" rel=\"tag\">Starhawk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubya versus the dark forces My visitor numbers shot way up three days ago: it turns out that my Hurricane Katrina-related discussion of Starhawk&#8217;s public statement was linked to by a conservative Catholic webzine. 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