{"id":8953,"date":"2013-02-25T05:15:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/25\/woman-shot-by-oven\/"},"modified":"2013-02-25T05:15:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T05:15:52","slug":"woman-shot-by-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/25\/woman-shot-by-oven\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Shot By Oven"},"content":{"rendered":"

She didn't know a friend stored his ammo there<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will liberals call for oven control?  Or perhaps demand that ovens come with warning labels: Do not store ammunition in ovens!<\/em> Or perhaps: Remove all ammo, fuels, cats and babies before preheating!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Is there anything so stupid that some liberal won't jump to embrace it?  <\/span><\/p>\n

That last sentence is an example of a rhetorical question, which I define as follows.  A rhetorical question is an interrogative form of words utterance of which is used to make a statement or issue a command.  For example, suppose you are the father of a teenage daughter.  It gets back to you that she was texting while driving.  You utter this grammatically interrogative sentence: 'Do you have to text while you drive?' You are not, logically, asking a question or making a statement.  You are, logically, issuing a command: Do not text while driving! <\/em> Depending on the proclivities of the lass you might add: And do not 'sext' while driving<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n

'Is there anything so stupid that some liberal won't jump to embrace it?' is grammatically interrogative but logically declarative.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She didn't know a friend stored his ammo there. Will liberals call for oven control?  Or perhaps demand that ovens come with warning labels: Do not store ammunition in ovens! Or perhaps: Remove all ammo, fuels, cats and babies before preheating! Is there anything so stupid that some liberal won't jump to embrace it?  That last … Continue reading “Woman Shot By Oven”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}