{"id":397,"date":"2006-07-25T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=397"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:20:24","slug":"birth-pangs-of-a-new-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Birth Pangs of a New Middle East&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is it just me, or did Secretary Of Snake Condolee-ee-ee-eezza Rice<\/strong> make one of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/birthpangs\/aljazeeraricebirthpangsJul2206.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">weirdest statements ever<\/a> last weekend &#8212; even weirder than that NBC &#8220;Today&#8221; interview where she said &#8220;freedom is on the march&#8221; about half a dozen times? Oh, and I love the part where she says that &#8220;We&#8217;re going through a very violent time.&#8221; &#8220;WE&#8221;? What do you mean <em>&#8220;we&#8221;,<\/em> white woman?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-398\" title=\"birthpangs550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/birthpangs550w-395x600.jpg\" alt=\"birthpangs550w\" width=\"395\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/birthpangs550w-395x600.jpg 395w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/birthpangs550w-98x150.jpg 98w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/birthpangs550w-329x499.jpg 329w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/birthpangs550w.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, though, quite a bout of birth pangs, there; shame it couldn&#8217;t have been a more quiet, serene and peaceful birthing experience, like Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise&#8217;s baby.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Birth Pangs of a New Middle East\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/birthpangs\/birthpangs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 744k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or did Secretary Of Snake Condolee-ee-ee-eezza Rice make one of her weirdest statements ever last weekend &#8212; even weirder than that NBC &#8220;Today&#8221; interview where she said &#8220;freedom is on the march&#8221; about half a dozen times? Oh, and I love the part where she says that &#8220;We&#8217;re going through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,82,168,8,9],"tags":[12,135,138,139],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-middle-east","category-palestine","category-right-wingnuts","category-war-and-peace","tag-bush","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3989,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}