{"id":28399,"date":"2012-01-20T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28399"},"modified":"2012-01-20T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:45:18","slug":"there-a-joke-here-somewhere-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28399","title":{"rendered":"There a Joke Here, Somewhere&#8230; I Hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has heard about The White House helping China out by saying no to the Keystone Pipeline project.<\/p>\n<p>Most have heard about The White House doing it&#8217;s damnedest to prevent the\u00a0exploitation of both on-shore and off-shore oil and gas reserves in CONUS.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder if you&#8217;ve heard this tid-bit?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/19\/us-cuba-oil-rig-idUSTRE80I1WV20120119\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba gives <strong>The Finge<\/strong>r to the US! (my title).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highlight 1:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Starting next week, Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF, working in partnership with Norway&#8217;s Statoil and ONGC Videsh, a unit of India&#8217;s Oil and Natural Gas Corp, is expected to drill at least two wells in Cuban waters about 70 miles from the Florida Keys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Highlight 2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The only part of the rig said to be American-made is the blowout preventer, the part that failed in the BP disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cuba is hoping oil will ease its chronic economic woes and bring energy independence. It currently receives 115,000 barrels a day from its oil-rich socialist ally Venezuela.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Chronic economic woes <\/em>and<em> energy independence? <\/em>I know I&#8217;ve heard those words before? These stories have national security ramifications that are maybe less immediate than slashing the DOD budget&#8230; but hardly less important at that.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Folks, there has GOT to be a punch line coming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has heard about The White House helping China out by saying no to the Keystone &hellip; <a title=\"There a Joke Here, Somewhere&#8230; I Hope?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28399\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There a Joke Here, Somewhere&#8230; I Hope?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28399","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}