{"id":1370,"date":"2008-03-21T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2008-03-21T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:13:27","slug":"avast-ye-al-qaedas-arrgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"Avast, ye al Qaedas! Arrgh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ltnixonrants.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/us-news-and-world-report-embarrasses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lt Nixon<\/a> catches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/news\/national\/2008\/03\/19\/antiwar-protesters-mark-5th-anniversary-of-iraq-war.html\" target=\"_blank\">US Snooze and World Retorts<\/a> in a bit of incompetent fact-checking;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Standing just outside the recruiting center were several current or former servicemen, including Coby Dillard, <strong>who said he served on the USS Constitution as a Navy petty officer in 2003<\/strong>. At one point, a lob of red paint hit the sidewalk and exploded at Dillard&#8217;s feet. &#8220;This is the blood that has been spilled,&#8221; yelled a protester before being admonished by a noticeably perturbed organizer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Great! Good to know a fellow squid who has done time post-9\/11 is standing up against the marxist goon squad who wants to degrade our military. Of course his claim to be an Iraq vet, judging by the text of this article, looks to be in question since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussconstitution.navy.mil\/\">USS Constitution<\/a> or &#8220;Old Ironsides&#8221; hasn&#8217;t seen any action on the high seas since the War of 1812.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/300px-uss_constitution_1997.jpg\" title=\"300px-uss_constitution_1997.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/300px-uss_constitution_1997.jpg\" alt=\"300px-uss_constitution_1997.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">USS Constitution<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LT Nixon continues to explain that the young petty officer served on the USS Constellation &#8211; easy mistake, the first five letters are the same, aren&#8217;t they? In an email to me the El-Tee asks &#8220;Sheesh, it&#8217;s like the media is trying to make vets look like jackassess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My answer was; no, they just think all of their consumers are jackasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt Nixon catches US Snooze and World Retorts in a bit of incompetent fact-checking; Standing just &hellip; <a title=\"Avast, ye al Qaedas! Arrgh!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1370\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avast, ye al Qaedas! Arrgh!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}