{"id":43577,"date":"2014-05-06T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43577"},"modified":"2014-05-05T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T03:52:08","slug":"all-in-the-timing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43577","title":{"rendered":"All In The Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is rigging\u00a0a small &#8220;Snark&#8221;-class sailboat out for a day of sailing on Lake Minnetonka.\u00a0 Among the\u00a0modifications: the stepping of fore and mizzen masts, and the conversion of all three to square rigging, and a black with white-stripe\u00a0and black &#8220;gunports&#8221; paint job,\u00a0to convert the 14 foot boat into a small model of the USS Constitution.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BERG notices Avery LIBRELLE paddling past on a recumbent bicycle that&#8217;s had two outrigger floats attached to the frame, and paddles clipped to the drive wheel, making the recumbant into a crude pedal-powered catamaran.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LIBRELLE notices BERG before he can duck below the gunwales of the small boat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0\u00a0 Ahoy, Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Er, ahoy, matey. \u00a0Interesting ride.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yeah, I paid for it with a government &#8220;green energy&#8221; grant.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Of course you did. \u00a0What&#8217;s up?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 I&#8217;m on my way to a float-in observing the 44th anniversary of the Kent State shootings.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a044 years. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0I remember seeing that on the TV when I was a little kid.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Further proof that we the Masses need to be on guard against totalitarian rule!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Huh?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: Nixon ordered those murders!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: Er, it was more a matter of National Guardsmen panicking under pressure. \u00a0There was no conspiracy &#8211; at least, none that 44 years of constant scrutiny has found.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Only if you believe the conservative mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Er, right. \u00a0So speaking of coverups, how about Benghazi?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Oh, stop. That was\u00a0<em>two whole years ago<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><em>LIBRELLE pedals briskly away &#8211; running up onto a sandbar. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is rigging\u00a0a small &#8220;Snark&#8221;-class sailboat out for a day of sailing on Lake Minnetonka.\u00a0 Among the\u00a0modifications: the stepping of fore and mizzen masts, and the conversion of all three to square rigging, and a black with white-stripe\u00a0and black &#8220;gunports&#8221; paint job,\u00a0to convert the 14 foot boat into a small model of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-43577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43577","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=43577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43588,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43577\/revisions\/43588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}