{"id":194380,"date":"2008-09-27T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/27\/next-man-makes-a-move-and-the-nggr-gets-it\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T12:01:00","slug":"next-man-makes-a-move-and-the-nggr-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/27\/next-man-makes-a-move-and-the-nggr-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Man Makes a Move, and the N*gg*r Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img527.imageshack.us\/img527\/6824\/092008a400m3103175717pv4.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>If you&#8217;ve ever seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071230\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blazing Saddles<\/span><\/a>,<sup>*<\/sup> you remember the scene where Cleavon Little, realizing that the citizens of Rick Ridge are about to lynch him, holds a gun to his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">own<\/span> neck, and then <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">holds himself hostage<\/span> until he can extricate himself from the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that EADS, parent company of Airbus has watched <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blazing Saddles<\/span> many, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">many<\/span> times, because this is the stratagem that they are using <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3734593&amp;c=EUR&amp;s=AIR\">to deal with the penalty clauses in their contracts for late delivery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Aerospace giant EADS has threatened to freeze production of its Airbus subsidiary&#8217;s flagship military airlifter if clients do not drop penalty clauses for late delivery, a German news report said Sept. 20.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The A400M airlifter. (EADS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Der Spiegel weekly, trailing its Sept. 22 publication, cited a letter sent by Louis Gallois, the French chief executive of both companies, to the governments of seven countries who have ordered the A400M plane.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Un-dirtyword-believable.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">If you&#8217;ve never seen <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%;\" >Blazing Saddles<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">, you need to rent it and watch it today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever seen Blazing Saddles,* you remember the scene where Cleavon Little, realizing that the citizens of Rick Ridge are about to lynch him, holds a gun to his own neck, and then holds himself hostage until he can extricate himself from the situation. Well, it appears that EADS, parent company of Airbus has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194380"}],"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=194380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}