{"id":1622,"date":"2007-07-04T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2007-07-04T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:26:08","slug":"my-buddy-pascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"My buddy Pascal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If I may call him that<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is, like me, a little oddly constructed in La Cabeza.<br \/>\nSometimes, for fear of not getting his thoughts out as coherently as he&#8217;d like, he worries and frets over posts for ages.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah,right, like any of the rest of us are ever very clear or coherent. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, more and more lately, he nails it, and this is one of the times. Many of you may have heard shrillary yapping about the pardon of Libby. (who, incidentally, did nothing other than have varying recollections of an event- tell me you have never had that situation, and you&#8217;re a liar, plain and simple) I won&#8217;t link to a wav file of that, I won&#8217;t have her communist voice anywhere near my blog. Does she really think our memories are that short?  The money quote in Pascals&#8217;s piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe are at war with pardons.<br \/>\nWe have always been at war with pardons.<br \/>\nStrict enforcement is our friend.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, back at the end of the Clinton Administration, this was the Democratic rant:<\/p>\n<p>We are at war with merciless sentencing.<br \/>\nWe have always been at war with merciless sentencing.<br \/>\nPardons are our friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Won&#8217;t make any sense unless you&#8217;ve read &#8220;1984&#8221;. Which, if you haven&#8217;t, is a treatise  on how socialism and communisim fuck up everything they touch. ( I know someone who actually believes that book is about Capitalism and Conservatism, can you believe that ignorance?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/pascalfervor.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/orwellian-crazy-quilt.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>. Pascal is fast becoming one of my favorite bloggers, with Francis and Kim and Steve. Now if he&#8217;d just post more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I may call him that Is, like me, a little oddly constructed in La Cabeza. Sometimes, for fear of not getting his thoughts out as coherently as he&#8217;d like, he worries and frets over posts for ages. Yeah,right, like any of the rest of us are ever very clear or coherent. Anyway, more and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}