{"id":966,"date":"2008-03-11T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/inviolable-rules\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:23:35","slug":"inviolable-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/inviolable-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviolable Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some inviolable rules that people should know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never start a land war in Asia Minor. If you&#8217;ve played Risk you know why. Obviously, Bush, Congress, and their lackeys never played Risk.<\/li>\n<li>Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. With apologies to Vizzini&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Crusaders shouldn&#8217;t sin. They always get caught.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Somehow I take more pleasure in the scandals when it&#8217;s wide stance Senators in men&#8217;s rooms, sacrosanct family-first Senator&#8217;s visiting prostitutes, or Florida politicians offering money for blow jobs. But turnabout is fair play and few crusaders have been asking for it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/10\/nyregion\/10cnd-spitzer.html\" target=\"_blank\" >more than NY Governor Eliot Spitzer<\/a>. What were you thinking about? It clearly wasn&#8217;t that virtually anyone would blow the whistle on him for virtually anything. Apparently he was distracted by high-end tail (one companion&#8217;s rate was $5,500 per hour.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow that we&#8217;re talking about this, where does a public servant get that kind of discretionary income? I think we&#8217;ve not heard the last of this particular scandal&#8230;The Republican&#8217;s love you Spitzer for taking the focus off their faux pas.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>Eliot Spitzer signals his largess<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/spitzer.jpg\" alt=\"Eliot Spitzer signals his largess\" \/><\/center><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some inviolable rules that people should know: Never start a land war in Asia Minor. If you&#8217;ve played Risk you know why. Obviously, Bush, Congress, and their lackeys never played Risk. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. With apologies to Vizzini&#8230; Crusaders shouldn&#8217;t sin. They always get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}