{"id":498,"date":"2007-02-23T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/23\/deeply-intensely-stupid\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T17:55:41","slug":"deeply-intensely-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Deeply, Intensely Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does the title describe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2007\/02\/22\/D8NF6EBG2.html\">the Dems&#8217; latest proposal<\/a> &#8211; to try to repeal the President&#8217;s war powers from 2003?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or does it describe the Democrat senators themselves?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the grimly-funny part (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While these officials said the precise wording of the measure remains unsettled, <em>one draft would restrict American troops in Iraq to combating al-Qaida<\/em>, training Iraqi army and police forces, maintaining Iraq&#8217;s territorial integrity and otherwise proceeding with the withdrawal of combat forces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Showtime Six, this is Showtime Four Two, we&#8217;re taking fire from\u00a0those buildings north of the highway.\u00a0 Say again?\u00a0 Er, roger that.\u00a0 <em>Sergeant Lonsdale!\u00a0 Ask them if they&#8217;re Al Quaeda!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[muffled arabic sounds in distance]<\/p>\n<p>SGT. LONSDALE: &#8220;I think that means &#8216;no, nobody here but us Ba&#8217;athists, sir&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Negative, Showtime Six.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Oh&#8230;Roger that, Showtime Four Two Out.\u00a0 <em>Cease fire!\u00a0 Cease fire!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just a note to all of you who sat out last November&#8217;s senate election, or voted Libertarian, or figured that was no difference between the candidates because Mark Kennedy supported ethanol subsidies:\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the title describe the Dems&#8217; latest proposal &#8211; to try to repeal the President&#8217;s war powers from 2003?\u00a0 Or does it describe the Democrat senators themselves?\u00a0 You be the judge. Here&#8217;s the grimly-funny part (emphasis mine): While these officials said the precise wording of the measure remains unsettled, one draft would restrict American troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}