{"id":488,"date":"2007-07-12T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/irony-overload\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T19:26:24","slug":"irony-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Irony overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just doing my daily blog reading and from two of my favorites too much irony for one person to stand &#8211; so I pass off some of it to ya&#8217;all. First from <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com\/atlas_shrugs\/2007\/07\/un-fox-in-the-h.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atlas Shrugs<\/a>, the all-by-itself-laughable story of the UN&#8217;s new Global Compact initiative to teach private business to be more responsible;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Its goal is promoting more virtuous behavior on the part of private business, and just last week it hosted what its own brochure described as an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong><span style=\"color: #cc3300\">historic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d two-day corporate jamboree <\/span><\/strong>at the UN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s palatial offices in Geneva.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, as if by magic, I turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodthirstyliberal.com\/?p=3212\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodthirsty Liberal<\/a> to read;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new audit has found that renovating the iconic U.N. headquarters building is already $148 million over budget, long before the dirt has been shoveled.<\/p>\n<p>Delays and design changes to the nearly $2 billion project have created the initial cost overrun, according to a report from the U.N. Board of Auditors, which further finds that the United Nations has yet to undertake important pre-construction surveys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the most innefficient, nonproductive, irresponsible\u00c2\u00a0and corrupt\u00c2\u00a0entity in the world wants to teach us all\u00c2\u00a0how to be successful and responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just doing my daily blog reading and from two of my favorites too much irony for &hellip; <a title=\"Irony overload\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=488\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irony overload<\/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":[11,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}