{"id":182321,"date":"2015-10-20T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/20\/someone-anonymous-headline-writer-is-getting-himself-cut-a-new-asshole-right-now\/"},"modified":"2015-10-20T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:40:00","slug":"someone-anonymous-headline-writer-is-getting-himself-cut-a-new-asshole-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/20\/someone-anonymous-headline-writer-is-getting-himself-cut-a-new-asshole-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Anonymous Headline Writer is Getting Himself Cut a New Asshole Right Now\u2026\u2026\u2026*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at &#8220;All the News That&#8217;s Fit to Print,&#8221; they are writing about all those people in Washington who are eager to declare war on Syria and call it a no fly zone.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, a headline writer at the <i>New York Times<\/i>, did his job poorly, and so the title is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/20\/us\/politics\/gop-candidates-leading-charge-in-call-for-syrian-no-fly-zone.html\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">G.O.P. Candidates Leading Charge in Call for Syrian No-Fly Zone<\/span><\/b><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is a small problem though, which is revealed on paragraph 3:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/04\/13\/us\/elections\/hillary-clinton.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Hillary Rodham Clinton.\">Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/04\/world\/syria-exposes-split-between-obama-and-clinton.html\">split with President Obama<\/a>,  advocating a no-fly zone in an attempt to stop the bloodshed, reduce  the flow of refugees and give the United States leverage against Russia.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew that Hillary had joined the Republican Party?<\/p>\n<p>On a slightly more serious note, when people are talking about a no-fly zone, they are taking about going to war against the government of Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Enforcing a no fly zone requires that you suppress all air defenses, destroy infrastructure that might support air operations (like civilian power stations and the phone system), and bomb airfields. <\/p>\n<p>I am so glad that I live in Maryland, where my vote for President does not count, because I am never voting again for frothing at the mouth war mongers like Clinton, because if Maryland is in play, then the election is already settled.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2015\/10\/gop-candidate-hillary-clinton-calls-for-no-fly-zone.html\">Moon of Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Full disclosure, when I worked at Jarvis Products on meat packing equipment, inducing a tool that actually cut a new asshole on cow, chicken, and pig carcasses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at &#8220;All the News That&#8217;s Fit to Print,&#8221; they are writing about all those people in Washington who are eager to declare war on Syria and call it a no fly zone. Unfortunately, a headline writer at the New York Times, did his job poorly, and so the title is, &#8220;G.O.P. Candidates Leading Charge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182321"}],"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=182321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}