{"id":2479,"date":"2008-04-23T05:19:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2008-04-23T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T12:11:36","slug":"why-does-steve-perry-hate-the-handicapped-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Steve Perry Hate The Handicapped, Veterans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When last we discussed John McCain with the staff of the Minnesota Monitor <\/em>– Minnesota’s wholly Soros-owned propaganda mill [*] – they were tittering <\/a>about the state of the Senator’s teeth. After the gaucherie got national attention, they apologized <\/a>– they didn’t know<\/em> that McCain had lost his teeth to violence and malnutrition while held as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton.<\/p>\n

Now, Steve Perry copies and pastes<\/a> the lede from a LATimes editorial on McCain’s disability payment from the Navy, and adds:<\/p>\n

Some interesting fallout from John McCain’s release of his tax return and other financial disclosures: Ralph Vartabedian of the LAT reports<\/a> today that McCain receives a tax-free, 100-percent disability pension (nearly $60,000 last year) from the US Navy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perry does <\/em>realize that that’s the norm; when someone sacrifices his health in the line of duty, they’re entitled to disability – doesn’t he? And that Mac’s health was so shattered by the ordeal that his Navy career – for four generations, now, the family business – was impossible to carry on?<\/p>\n

And that’s part of the bargain our society makes with its soldiers and sailors; in exchange for patrolling the world’s hostile reaches on our behalf, for lousy pay, with the additional risk of being killed, maimed, injured, or held hostage and beaten to the edge of endurance for years, we’ll take care of you if you’re disabled to the point that you can’t continue your career, whether that career is bricklayer or fighter pilot.
\nEspecially if it, y’know, doesn’t interfere with his day job…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When last we discussed John McCain with the staff of the Minnesota Monitor – Minnesota’s wholly Soros-owned propaganda mill [*] – they were tittering about the state of the Senator’s teeth. After the gaucherie got national attention, they apologized – they didn’t know that McCain had lost his teeth to violence and malnutrition while held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}