{"id":53242,"date":"2015-05-11T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53242"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:36:21","slug":"53242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53242","title":{"rendered":"Almost Always Normally An Anomaly, Usually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes  from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember Monty Python\u2019s cannibalism-in-the-lifeboat sketch?  It ended with a viewer letter saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the R.A.F. who now suffer the largest casualties in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was tasteless but funny because, of course, having a problem like cannibalism \u201crelatively\u201d under control isn\u2019t remotely good enough.  We expect there to be no cannibalism at all in the Royal Navy. <\/p>\n<p>After the Texas shooting, I wonder if Monty Python is the Obama Administration\u2019s best-case \u2013 Islamic terrorism in America is \u201crelatively\u201d under control?  Not Many terrorist attacks.  Only a Few Americans slaughtered.  A Small invasion.  Just a Handful of bombings.  Pretty Good national security.<\/p>\n<p>If so, this can\u2019t be good news: ISIS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2015\/05\/isis-posts-warning-we-have-71-trained-soldiers-in-15-states-names-5-targets\/\">claims to have 71 warriors already in-country <\/a>and five targets pre-selected.  Have we, as a nation, had our expectations so far lowered that we shrug and say: \u201cIt\u2019s only 71 and they\u2019re not in my back yard; Islamic terrorism in America is relatively under control\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Was I the only one who looked at this claim and said &#8220;only 71?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember Monty Python\u2019s cannibalism-in-the-lifeboat sketch? It ended with a viewer letter saying: \u201cAs a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the R.A.F. who now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53242","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=53242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53248,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53242\/revisions\/53248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}