{"id":182100,"date":"2015-12-17T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/17\/gratuitous-star-trek-reference-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:15:00","slug":"gratuitous-star-trek-reference-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/17\/gratuitous-star-trek-reference-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Star Trek Reference of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/theinnerwalls.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/a-speech-i-wish-someone-would-give-four.html\">Bear who Swims<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The hopeless non-sense spoken by everyone about recent terror attacks miss a single point:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">We can minimize attacks, but we can&#8217;t stop them<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">.\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Yes we can improve intelligence, control weapons, strike an bases.&nbsp; And a  good strategy might improve safety, limit gun crime, prevent  radicalization.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But it won&#8217;t stop it all.&nbsp; As the font of much wisdom pointed out &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Four  thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man<\/span><\/b>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you are wondering, this was said <strike>by<\/strike> to the Kang<sup>*<\/sup> who was Kang before there was Kang and Kodos on <i>The Simpsons<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">My bad, I got the dialogue in the ST:TNG episode Day of the Dove wrong.  I am not worthy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Bear who Swims: \u2026\u2026\u2026 The hopeless non-sense spoken by everyone about recent terror attacks miss a single point: We can minimize attacks, but we can&#8217;t stop them .\u2026\u2026\u2026 Yes we can improve intelligence, control weapons, strike an bases.&nbsp; And a good strategy might improve safety, limit gun crime, prevent radicalization. But it won&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1171,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science-fiction","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}