{"id":5551,"date":"2008-12-08T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5551"},"modified":"2008-12-08T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:04:38","slug":"fear_of_a_blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/fear_of_a_blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of a blue turban?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9ks36c549BI\/STMtfC9ObaI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/qxCDPdcjDq8\/s1600-h\/antichrist1.JPG\"><img height=256 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/screen-2008-12-06-18-23-06.jpg\" width=441 border=0 ><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Recently, I saw the image above, taken from a <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_9ks36c549BI\/STMtfC9ObaI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/qxCDPdcjDq8\/s1600-h\/antichrist1.JPG\">screenshot<\/a> of the webpage of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfi640.com\/main.html\">Los Angeles talk radio station<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/12\/hewitt-award-no.html\">sullivan<\/a>]. <b> The show it mentions is the &#8220;top rated morning program in the Los Angeles market, with over 1 million listeners.&#8221;[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Handel\">wiki<\/a>]<\/b>\n\nI was struck by the blue turban which, it turns out, the wingnuts think is part of Nostradamus&#8217; prediction about Antichrist III:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Out of the country of Greater Arabia Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed, He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban. He will be the terror of mankind. Never more horror. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/chat\/1735679\/posts\">freep!<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Now if they think that Hawaii is part of Greater Arabia, I&#8217;m worried what they&#8217;ll think when they see a photo of the Indian Prime Minister! Or worse, one of Sikh peacekeepers, since we know how they feel about the UN &#8230; (images below the fold)<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to gather together a whole bunch of friends to stand outside a wingnut gathering, all of us wearing blue turbans, staring at people as they enter and exit. It would be worth it for a laugh, that is, if they didn&#8217;t call the FBI and accuse us of suspicious behavior. One step at a time, I guess. Maybe I should start with that cool forehead tattoo instead &#8230; <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" borderColor=#cccccc cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10 bgColor=#ffffff border=1 hspace=\"10\">\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manmohan_Singh\"><img height=367 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/screen-2008-12-06-18-41-53_1.jpg\" width=355 border=0 ><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/mod.nic.in\/samachar\/sep1-04\/body.html\"><img height=90 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/screen-2008-12-06-18-43-12.jpg\" width=462 border=0 ><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I saw the image above, taken from a screenshot of the webpage of a Los Angeles talk radio station [via sullivan]. The show it mentions is the &#8220;top rated morning program in the Los Angeles market, with over 1 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/fear_of_a_blue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}