{"id":26536,"date":"2017-10-07T08:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26536"},"modified":"2017-10-07T08:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:14:04","slug":"light-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26536","title":{"rendered":"Light It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title-media-block\">\n<div class=\"post-title-wrap\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a title=\"Light It Up\" href=\"http:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/light-it-up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Light It Up<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"column column-01\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>War, children, <\/em><br \/>\n<em>It\u2019s just a shot away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It\u2019s just a shot away<br \/>\n\u2014 <\/em>You Know Who<\/p>\n<p>Grinning like <em>Wonderland\u2019s<\/em> Cheshire Cat, the Golden Golem of Greatness pronounced this interval of fine fall weather \u201cthe calm before the storm.\u201d Hmmmm. Talk about cryptic. This was less than a week after he verbally smacked down Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for \u201cwasting his time\u201d trying to diplomatically reach \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u2026 \u201c whereby Rex riposted, calling the President a \u201cmoron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily \u2014 say, during the past 220-odd years of this nation\u2019s existence \u2014 talk like that would prompt a resignation (though, there are no other instances of talk like that). Tillerson must think that for the good of the country he can\u2019t resign, and God knows what kind of desperate notes are being swapped around between the State Department and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Where, of course, dwell the generals, lovingly referred to by the president as \u201cmy generals,\u201d as if they came out of a trunk full of tin soldiers in the White House play-room. A lot to chew on there. For instance, perhaps the generals have been waiting more than a half century for a good excuse to light up some really odious adversary, just to see how well our serious ordnance works. Or maybe not. Maybe they are all extraordinarily temperate and judicious fellows, averse to apocalyptic violence. Or maybe they are panting to be let off the leash by POTUS\u2026 or maybe they want to leash and muzzle the president\u2026 and perhaps stuff him into a pet carrier and drown him in the Potomac. For the moment, it\u2019s fun to ruminate on these things, the possibilities are so rich.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light It Up\u00a0 War, children, It\u2019s just a shot away It\u2019s just a shot away \u2014 You Know Who Grinning like Wonderland\u2019s Cheshire Cat, the Golden Golem of Greatness pronounced this interval of fine fall weather \u201cthe calm before the storm.\u201d Hmmmm. Talk about cryptic. This was less than a week after he verbally smacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7844,16333,449,8593,2006,4121,862],"class_list":["post-26536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-nate","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-national-hurricane-center","tag-north-korea","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26537,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions\/26537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}