{"id":34074,"date":"2013-02-09T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34074"},"modified":"2013-02-09T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T19:17:11","slug":"isnt-it-ironic-dont-ya-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34074","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t It Ironic &#8211; Don&#8217;t Ya think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to\u00a0Alanis Morissette.<\/p>\n<p>This particular story ain&#8217;t really new, or news. TAH has already covered parts of the debacle that is the ongoing neutering of our country&#8217;s defenses. At all levels really &#8211; from our back doors to the international arena.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=119232\" target=\"_blank\">Panetta, Dempsey List Consequences of Sequestration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One paragraph from the link rattled my cage just enough to bring it to your attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is not something that should be done as a way to blame the other party for what happens,\u201d Panetta said. \u201cThis is going to hurt the United States and hurt our defense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a loss here. It seems to be the PC mindset writ large.\u00a0 I reckon both parties in a rape are at fault?\u00a0 The store owner who shoots a robber pointing a gun at him while demanding the money from the register is part of the problem? Shutting down Head Start could save billions, but it is a (failed) well meaning program. The list of PC things that I can&#8217;t seem to understand grows everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, I dunno where this will end&#8230; Well, I AM kinda old and paranoid so maybe it is just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to\u00a0Alanis Morissette. This particular story ain&#8217;t really new, or news. TAH has already covered &hellip; <a title=\"Isn&#8217;t It Ironic &#8211; Don&#8217;t Ya think?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isn&#8217;t It Ironic &#8211; Don&#8217;t Ya think?<\/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-34074","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\/34074","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=34074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}