{"id":56520,"date":"2014-11-17T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56520"},"modified":"2014-11-17T19:19:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:19:54","slug":"oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56520","title":{"rendered":"Oh what a tangled web we weave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the second line of the quote attributed to Sir Walter Scott. I&#8217;ll leave it to your Google-Fu if you are curious enough to explore.<\/p>\n<p>My small point is a reflection of OUR current news.\u00a0 And the phonies dancing when they are called out. I&#8217;ll leave the latter to Jonn et al here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/\">TAH.<\/a><br \/>\nMy primary premise is kinda based on the old joke: &#8220;How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even with the recent elections we are left with the simple idea that those in DC are, at least, suspect. \u00a0How do we properly approach a system that is broken? Term limits for Congress Critters has been mentioned. I dunno, but I am skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>No pragmatist could successfully argue that our current system works. Our military and VA system are so top-heavy that they serve as very real and very negative examples.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not prepared to offer anything easy, or maybe even useful, but few can argue that we are better off today as a country than in the past.\u00a0 Do keep in mind that our country once went to war over what was considered an arguably not simple notion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m old enough that I am genuinely only peripherally involved in what will come. You younger folks better start learning the dance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the second line of the quote attributed to Sir Walter Scott. I&#8217;ll leave it &hellip; <a title=\"Oh what a tangled web we weave\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56520\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh what a tangled web we weave<\/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-56520","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\/56520","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=56520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}