{"id":219,"date":"2001-04-01T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2001-04-02T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=219"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:32:25","slug":"stop-dubyas-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Stop Dubya&#8217;s &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Farce is strong in this one, O, Master!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure as hell was, there, Mr. George W. Skywalker. What other briefing materials could the Chimp have had when deciding that at a time when the Cold War was long over, one of our main military threats was reduced to a Mafia-ridden laughingstock and the other was our Most Favored Nation trading partner? Sure, why not restart the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; program which, by Reagan&#8217;s own admission, was a waste of time?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"june10deathshuttle550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/june10deathshuttle550w.jpg\" alt=\"june10deathshuttle550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/june10deathshuttle550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/june10deathshuttle550w-95x150.jpg 95w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/june10deathshuttle550w-319x500.jpg 319w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/june10deathshuttle550w-383x600.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This also wound up illustrating the cover of Alternative Press Review in the summer of 2001.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Stop Dubya's Star Wars!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/starwars\/june10deathshuttle_colr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>387k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Farce is strong in this one, O, Master! Sure as hell was, there, Mr. George W. Skywalker. What other briefing materials could the Chimp have had when deciding that at a time when the Cold War was long over, one of our main military threats was reduced to a Mafia-ridden laughingstock and the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,229,9],"tags":[12,72,71],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-space","category-war-and-peace","tag-bush","tag-missile-defense","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}