{"id":14740,"date":"2009-09-30T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14740"},"modified":"2009-09-30T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:32:45","slug":"burnpit-takes-on-votevets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14740","title":{"rendered":"Burnpit takes on VoteVets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our occasional commenters, Blue Cyclone, writing under the sceen name of Seventh Son at <a href=\"http:\/\/burnpit.legion.org\/2009\/09\/beware-the-partisan-organization-which-claims-to-speak-for-veterans\/\">The Burn Pit<\/a> blows VoteVets out of the water on their claims that they&#8217;re non-partisan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is a shame that as numerous organizations came together with the VA and the White House to address the needs of veterans of our most recent conflicts, VoteVets saw an opportunity to score cheap political points. VoteVets is good at getting their folks elected to Congress, and I hope they will stick to that. Leave aiding veterans to organizations like The American Legion who aren\u2019t afraid to roll up their sleeves and work with veterans, citizens and lawmakers to get veterans all they have earned, without a Pavlovian need to check their voter registration first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow, Blue Cyclone has picked up on several of the themes we&#8217;ve presented here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TSO ADDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Question:<\/em> What is funnier than Dicksmith spelling &#8220;Scholarly&#8221; wrong?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14745\" title=\"smith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smith.bmp\" alt=\"smith\" width=\"462\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Answer:<\/em> Almost nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our occasional commenters, Blue Cyclone, writing under the sceen name of Seventh Son at &hellip; <a title=\"Burnpit takes on VoteVets\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14740\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burnpit takes on VoteVets<\/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":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740","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=14740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}