{"id":8559,"date":"2003-02-13T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/13\/if-it-quacks-like-a-duct\/"},"modified":"2003-02-13T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2003-02-13T19:26:51","slug":"if-it-quacks-like-a-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/if-it-quacks-like-a-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"If it quacks like a duct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Senate Minority Leader<br \/>\nTom Daschle said on Wednesday the Bush administration must do more to protect<br \/>\nAmericans against a suspected increased risk of terrorist attacks than urge<br \/>\nthem to seal a designated room with duct tape and plastic sheets.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">&quot;This administration has to do a lot better,&quot;<br \/>\nsaid Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat. &quot;They have to do a lot more than<br \/>\ntell people that the responsibility is now on their shoulders.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">With a possible war with Iraq looming and the US government<br \/>\nhaving raised the risk level of terrorist attacks based on intelligence reports,<br \/>\nUS authorities this week recommended that every American home have at least<br \/>\nthree days&#8217; worth of food and water in case of a chemical, biological or radiological<br \/>\nstrike.<\/font> [Full Story] <\/p>\n<p>Now we get to the real reason behind the Bush administrations policies against<br \/>\nIraq. The whole war for oil thing was a red herring to cover up the real reasons.<br \/>\nBush and Cheney have disinvested themselves of their oil holdings so any increase<br \/>\nin oil prices isn&#8217;t going to help them. But what about duct tape holdings? How<br \/>\nmany senior administration officials have heavily invested in duct tape futures.<br \/>\nFollow the money and I am sure we will find the real reasons using deDUCTive<br \/>\nreasoning. Tom &quot;duct tape&#8217; Daschle please come clean to the American people<br \/>\nwith your connections to duct tape; it is rumored that your wife is a major<br \/>\nduct tape lobbyist.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the duct tape <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octanecreative.com\/ducttape\/walltapings\/\">Wall<br \/>\nTaping Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said on Wednesday the Bush administration must do more to protect Americans against a suspected increased risk of terrorist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}