{"id":190360,"date":"2009-12-05T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/05\/now-this-is-a-rant\/"},"modified":"2009-12-05T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:55:00","slug":"now-this-is-a-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/05\/now-this-is-a-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, This is a Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 330px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFywXv8sNOk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFywXv8sNOk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFywXv8sNOk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFywXv8sNOk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFywXv8sNOk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFywXv8sNOk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><\/object> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">What&#8217;s Up With This Pink Tie Thing?<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The gentlemen in question is Nigel Farage, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and former head of the UK Independence Party, which makes him a very heavy duty wing asshole.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I&#8217;m struck by just how well spoken he is.  He&#8217;s an asshole, and as the defacto head of the UKIP, he is implacably opposed to the EU doing anything, ever, but he is well spoken and thoughtful in a way that is miles beyond people like Boehner, or McConnell, or Bush, or Dick &#8220;the Human Snarl&#8221; Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/ericpalmer.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/01\/yes-there-are-some-brits-that-can-speak-well\/\">ELP Defens(c)e Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Up With This Pink Tie Thing? The gentlemen in question is Nigel Farage, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and former head of the UK Independence Party, which makes him a very heavy duty wing asshole. That being said, I&#8217;m struck by just how well spoken he is. He&#8217;s an asshole, and as the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190360"}],"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=190360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}