{"id":8085,"date":"2013-08-27T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2013-08-27T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:23:30","slug":"tuesday-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/08\/27\/tuesday-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting around lately, thinking to myself, &#8220;something&#8217;s missing.&#8221;  I hadn&#8217;t been able to put my finger on what it was until suddenly, it hit me.  No wars going on in the Middle East.  Well thank goodness that&#8217;s all about to change, as it seems quite apparent that we&#8217;re on our way to doing &#8220;something&#8221; in Syria.  As a result, oil prices (even though Syria produces pretty much no oil these days) are already rising &#8211; along with the profits of Exxon-Mobil, no doubt.  I think the only thing holding us back is that nobody&#8217;s come up with a catchy slogan (like &#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221; or something) for our military action.  The Republicans are so much better at branding these things.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is we&#8217;ll go for a &#8220;no fly&#8221; zone.  That means expending a tremendous amount of ordinance (cruise missiles, bombs) to wipe out the Syrian air force, radar sites, etc.,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-07-22\/dempsey-says-syria-no-fly-zone-could-cost-1-billion-a-month.html\"> at a cost of a billion dollars a month<\/a> (according to General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). All while Congress battles over a government shut down and defunding Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>So this should be great.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting around lately, thinking to myself, &#8220;something&#8217;s missing.&#8221; I hadn&#8217;t been able to put my finger on what it was until suddenly, it hit me. No wars going on in the Middle East. Well thank goodness that&#8217;s all about to change, as it seems quite apparent that we&#8217;re on our way to doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}