{"id":2236,"date":"2017-04-16T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2017-04-16T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:15:09","slug":"wont-somebody-think-of-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t Somebody Think Of The Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thinkofthechildren\/thinkofthechildren.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thinkofthechildren\/thinkofthechildren600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"975\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When Uncle Sam starts waving the bloody dead children around,<\/strong> you know they&#8217;re scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to lame excuses for war. It&#8217;s a wheeze that goes back to World War I and earlier. It&#8217;s as if they aren&#8217;t even trying anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nancypelosi\" target=\"_blank\">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi<\/a> &#8212; a classic <a href=\"https:\/\/pelosi.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">craven, crawling Democrat<\/a> if ever there was one &#8212; with just the kind of lame, basic horseshit that really sticks in my goddamn&#8217; craw:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">America cannot stand on the sidelines and watch as children suffer. We must act. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lbec1D8Yos\">https:\/\/t.co\/lbec1D8Yos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NancyPelosi\/status\/850478908675956736\">April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is no doubt in my mind that America has the relentlessness and tenacity to fight for the world\u2019s children. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lbec1D8Yos\">https:\/\/t.co\/lbec1D8Yos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NancyPelosi\/status\/850521682892685317\">April 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIs there any chance La Nan gave any thought to the children of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Gaza, and everywhere else the US has slaughtered children &#8212; either directly or by proxy &#8212; in the past twenty or thirty years? Any chance she thought of the thousands of black youth murdered by police in the past twenty, twenty-five years? Nahh, not a chance in hell, are you kidding?<\/p>\n<p>Then came this huge blooper, about a week after Nancy&#8217;s uninspired pro-war queefage:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thinkofthechildren\/wapoApr1417pgA1_crop600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"690\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, they were &#8220;mistakenly identified&#8221; as ISIS, then? So, if the Post says they were &#8220;Allied Forces&#8221;, then it&#8217;s probably better than even money that a few of them were kids. D&#8217;ohhh.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s not forget &#8212; Nancypants is no stranger to kissing up to warmongers. Check her out here: first on NBC &#8220;Today&#8221; in 2002 describing how the Democrats stand &#8220;shoulder to shoulder&#8221; with Bush as he lied us into war in Iraq; then on &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; in 2006, talking about how the Democrats are &#8220;not about impeachment&#8230;&#8221;. Oh, how I laughed:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSWa4km5hv0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/thinkofthechildren\/thinkofthechildren.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.6mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Uncle Sam starts waving the bloody dead children around, you know they&#8217;re scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to lame excuses for war. It&#8217;s a wheeze that goes back to World War I and earlier. It&#8217;s as if they aren&#8217;t even trying anymore. Here&#8217;s House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,9,77],"tags":[791,793,522,792],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-assad","tag-cruise-missile","tag-syria","tag-tomahawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","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=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}