{"id":659,"date":"2009-06-18T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/i-heard-a-fly-buzz-when-i-thwap.html"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:28:17","slug":"i-heard-a-fly-buzz-when-i-thwap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/i-heard-a-fly-buzz-when-i-thwap.html","title":{"rendered":"I heard a fly buzz when I (thwap)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"204\" alt=\"obama_photo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/obama_photo.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>True\/False\/Cannot Say<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Folks really love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/113980\/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx\">Obama<\/a>: True<\/p>\n<p>Folks really love <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.peta.org\/archives\/2009\/06\/obama_and_the_f.php\">PETA:<\/a>&nbsp; False<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/17\/peta-wishes-obama-hadnt-s_n_217162.html\">Obama kills fly<\/a>: True<\/p>\n<p>PETA complains: True<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We, yet again, feel ambivalent about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/content\/standalone\/VeggieLove\/Default.aspx\">PETA and their PR methods<\/a>: True<\/p>\n<p>We think however, that of course PETA was asked about their stance by the 24 hour news hungry media and of course their responsibility was to say that they don&#8217;t agree with killing flies because they are an anti-animal-of-all-kinds killing organization so they&#8217;re really just staying on message: True<\/p>\n<p>We think Obama shouldn&#8217;t have killed the fly: Cannot Say.&nbsp; Firstly because a. we had a hamburger for lunch and b. we try not to judge but c. we think we probably shouldn&#8217;t have had a hamburger for lunch and d. if Obama went to the Buddha and said, &#8220;should I kill flies?&#8221; the Buddha would&nbsp;maybe have&nbsp;said &#8220;I&#8217;d rather you not.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>We are dreading the comparisons of Obama to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr_Miyagi\">Mister Miyagi<\/a>:&nbsp; True.<\/p>\n<p>We did not make them in our own brain: False.<\/p>\n<p>We think the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1155076\/\">remake of the Karate Kid <\/a>movie starring Will Smith&#8217;s son will be good: Cannot Say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; True\/False\/Cannot Say Folks really love Obama: True Folks really love PETA:&nbsp; False Obama kills fly: True PETA complains: True &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interdependent-activism-politics","category-right-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I heard a fly buzz when I (thwap) - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/i-heard-a-fly-buzz-when-i-thwap.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I heard a fly buzz when I (thwap) - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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