{"id":1228,"date":"2012-11-21T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:14:13","slug":"star-spangled-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Star-Spangled Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/starspangledbanner\/starspangledbanner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/starspangledbanner\/starspangledbanner650w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, our <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/982zxo8\" target=\"_blank\">Predator drone-wielding<\/a> Nobel <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c8veq9y\" target=\"_blank\">Peace Laureate<\/a> President, Mitt Obama, took time out from sucking up to Asian dictators to piss and moan about <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/d3bjf5b\" target=\"_blank\">missiles being used against civilians,<\/a> and to reiterate his support for Israel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/d9y9tam\" target=\"_blank\">right to defend itself<\/a> with F-16s, tanks, guided missiles, cluster bombs and tac nukes against people with glorified bottle rockets, truck bombs and automatic rifles.<\/p>\n<p>While utterly disgusting, it&#8217;s nonetheless not surprising, when you consider his <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=856\" target=\"_blank\">kiss-up speech to the AIPAC conference<\/a> early in his 2012 re-election campaign, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=473\" target=\"_blank\">conspicuous silence<\/a> on earlier Israeli brutality in Gaza while awaiting his coronation in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;14 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/starspangledbanner\/starspangledbanner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 620kb.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, our Predator drone-wielding Nobel Peace Laureate President, Mitt Obama, took time out from sucking up to Asian dictators to piss and moan about missiles being used against civilians, and to reiterate his support for Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself with F-16s, tanks, guided missiles, cluster bombs and tac nukes against people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,158,168,9,77],"tags":[167,135],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-obamarama","category-palestine","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-gaza","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}