{"id":1555,"date":"2007-09-11T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/11\/down-with-the-king\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:17:35","slug":"down-with-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/11\/down-with-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"down with the king!
Chuck Hegel for something important<\/i><\/sup>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I watch these hearings in the little window on the side of my computer screen [Biden sparring with Petraeus. Kind of whining.]<\/strong><\/font>, I keep thinking about Kings.<\/p>\n

I remember when I took history, all we talked about was the Kings and the Queens, the Kaisers, the Emperors, the Popes, and the Generals. It seemed like all the wars were between this King and that King for power. As things evolved, governments began to move away from such things. The interests of the people were increasingly represented, and the whims of the Kings faded into the background. Now, we’re back to Kings again. The King of Islamic Fundamentalists attacked America, mad at our old King for fighting the Iraq King who had invaded the Kuwait King’s territory. Our new King, son of an old King, then attacked and killed the King of Iraq, and is now threatening to attack the King of Iran. The British King dropped out. Now we’re hearing our Ministers and Generals talk about supporting our King’s policies against all the evil Kings. It’s like the ancient game of chess, all about protecting and capturing Kings. <\/p>\n

But we’ve got a bad King, and we’re not even supposed to be a Monarchy. Down with the King! Down with the Kings! This isn’t a game! [Chuck Hegel is now sparring with Petraeus and Crocker. He’s not just sparring, he’s kicking ass!]<\/strong><\/font>…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I watch these hearings in the little window on the side of my computer screen [Biden sparring with Petraeus. Kind of whining.], I keep thinking about Kings. I remember when I took history, all we talked about was the Kings and the Queens, the Kaisers, the Emperors, the Popes, and the Generals. It seemed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}