{"id":12925,"date":"2009-07-23T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12925"},"modified":"2009-07-23T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:14:15","slug":"that%e2%80%99s-not-a-loophole-that%e2%80%99s-an-aircraft-hangar-bay-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12925","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s Not a Loophole; That\u2019s an Aircraft Hangar Bay Door!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always pretty much played by the rules although as Jonn can attest I have always operated as close to the edge as I could get without actually violating a regulation.<\/p>\n<p>I always prided myself on being able to find a loophole in a safety reg or a range control policy or whatever.  Loopholes are hard to find because in most cases it enables someone to do something that was clearly not intended.  Usually I would do this to allow me to more effectively train my men but occasionally I did it just to be a smart ass.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are loopholes that are put there intentionally to cover the ass of whoever wrote the policy.  This is the cowardly technique used by slimy lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_obama\">Behold a classic case in point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought to rally support for sweeping health care legislation Wednesday night as Congress struggled to find agreement on a historic overhaul. He vowed to reject any measure &#8220;primarily funded through taxing middle-class families.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember during the campaign Obama promised over and over again that the middle class would not see \u201cone single dime\u201d in higher taxes?  <\/p>\n<p>That did not include the caveat \u201cPrimarily\u201d, did it?<\/p>\n<p>The M1 Abrams tank is 67.6 tons and it is 8 feet tall, 12 feet wide and 32 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>You could drive a task force full of these things through a loophole as big as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always pretty much played by the rules although as Jonn can attest I have &hellip; <a title=\"That\u2019s Not a Loophole; That\u2019s an Aircraft Hangar Bay Door!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12925\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That\u2019s Not a Loophole; That\u2019s an Aircraft Hangar Bay Door!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}