{"id":34,"date":"2006-06-20T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2006\/06\/20\/conservative-morons\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T19:30:14","slug":"conservative-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/conservative-morons\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Morons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is outside my usual subject area, but I just saw a spectacularly stupid quote from moronic conservative, and I just had to mock it.<br \/>\nFrom AllThingsConservative, an explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsconservative.typepad.com\/all_things_conservative\/2006\/06\/thank_god_for_r.html\">why we should thank god that Ronald Reagan was president<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf not for Ronald Reagan, and his vision and leadership, we would now be at the mercy of that lunatic in North Korea.  Instead, we have a workable missile defense against the threat.  Not only are we still working on a space-based system, but the technology now being deployed was developed due to the efforts started by Reagan.<br \/>\nWe should definitely shoot down the test missile.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Y&#8217;see, if if weren&#8217;t for the fact that Ronald Reagan was president, we wouldn&#8217;t have spent billions of dollars building a missile defense system that <em>doesn&#8217;t work<\/em>. And if we didn&#8217;t have a totally non-functional missile defense system, then we wouldn&#8217;t have the kind of safety that only a non-functional missile defense system can provide.<br \/>\nAfter all, remember: this is the missile defense system that hasn&#8217;t been able to knock down a missile even under the most insanely favorable conditions. A system that has failed a majority of its tests, even when they <em>knew<\/em> exactly what trajectory the incoming target was going to take <em>and<\/em> the target missile was carrying a homing beacon.<br \/>\nYup, we can all sit back and feel secure in the knowledge that we&#8217;re being protected by the genius of Ronald Reagan. Because <em>if<\/em> the North Koreans tell us exactly when they&#8217;re going to launch a missile at is; exactly what trajectory they&#8217;re going to use, <em>and<\/em> they&#8217;re kind enough to put a homing beacon on the warhead, we&#8217;ll have a slightly less than 50% chance of successfully shooting it down.<br \/>\nI feel so greatful, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is outside my usual subject area, but I just saw a spectacularly stupid quote from moronic conservative, and I just had to mock it. From AllThingsConservative, an explanation of why we should thank god that Ronald Reagan was president: If not for Ronald Reagan, and his vision and leadership, we would now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}