{"id":42170,"date":"2014-05-24T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T04:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/24\/once-again-the-onion-blurs-the-line.html"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T17:18:46","slug":"once-again-the-onion-blurs-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/24\/once-again-the-onion-blurs-the-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Once again, "The Onion" blurs the line"},"content":{"rendered":"
Because this seems to be the story of at least half of the major defense systems over the last forty years.<\/p>\n

\u201cCutting production of the Dervish merely because it is able to do nothing more than leave circular treadmarks and a smoking crater where it once stood would not only be irresponsible, it would leave the nation unequipped for the armed conflicts of tomorrow and put every citizen of this country at risk.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why does this seem like it could be an actual thing?\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Congress Reluctant To Cut Funding For Tank That Just Spins Around And Self-Destructs<\/a>
\n WASHINGTON\u2014Escalating recent budgetary disputes with the White House over military spending, members of Congress signaled their hesitance Thursday to curtail funding for the M114 Armored Combat Vehicle, a midsize tank whose sole capability is spinni…\n <\/p>\n

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Because this seems to be the story of at least half of the major defense systems over the last forty years. \u201cCutting production of the Dervish merely because it is able to do nothing more than leave circular treadmarks and a smoking crater where it once stood would not only be irresponsible, it would leave … Continue reading “Once again, "The Onion" blurs the line”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,30,349,376],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-jokes","category-military","category-taxing-spending","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20074,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/we-leave-kay-at-home-and-this-is-what-we-come-home-to.html","url_meta":{"origin":42170,"position":0},"title":"We leave Kay at home and THIS is what we come home to","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-Feb-11 9:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Party animal at 9:15p. :)","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2434,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/25\/so_who_needs_su.html","url_meta":{"origin":42170,"position":1},"title":"So who needs super-villains?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Jun-02 8:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I read about this story last week, but I had to leave before I could write up anything about it. 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