{"id":1033,"date":"2006-06-20T07:02:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T07:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2006-06-20T07:02:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T07:02:03","slug":"2006-6-20-its-the-thought-that-counts-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"It’s the thought that counts"},"content":{"rendered":"
The American State Dept just released its list of gifts given by foreign heads of state to visiting American regime big wigs. Most of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty by-the-numbers stuff\u00e2\u20ac\u201dTayyip Erdogan gave George Bush a desk set sort of thing. Yaaaawn. But a couple of these things make you wonder what the message was. Abdullah II gave him a sniper rifle<\/a>, I guess we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to read the note to find out if this was a jab at his foreign policy (anybody remember Ari Fleischer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one bullet<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd crack about regime change in Iraq?) or encouragement to become a better shot. The best one, though, has to be the Sultan of Brunei, who apparently handed over a copy<\/a> of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook<\/em><\/a>. No need to listen for a double entendre here. This little gem, published by Chronicle Books back in 1999, offers (supposedly carefully researched) advice on how to get out of various sticky situations: Crocodile got your arm? Tap on its nose. Trapped in a sinking car? Open the window. Presidency in a tailspin? Well, maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where the sniper rifle comes in\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Oddly, there’s nothing listed there from Hosni. Is that because they don’t have to list stuff they paid for?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American State Dept just released its list of gifts given by foreign heads of state to visiting American regime big wigs. Most of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty by-the-numbers stuff\u00e2\u20ac\u201dTayyip Erdogan gave George Bush a desk set sort of thing. Yaaaawn. But a couple of these things make you wonder what the message was. Abdullah II gave him a sniper rifle<\/a>, I guess we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to read the note to find out if this was a jab at his foreign policy (anybody remember Ari Fleischer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one bullet<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd crack about regime change in Iraq?) or encouragement to become a better shot. The best one, though, has to be the Sultan of Brunei, who apparently handed over a copy<\/a> of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook<\/em><\/a>. No need to listen for a double entendre here. This little gem, published by Chronicle Books back in 1999, offers (supposedly carefully researched) advice on how to get out of various sticky situations: Crocodile got your arm? Tap on its nose. Trapped in a sinking car? Open the window. Presidency in a tailspin? Well, maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where the sniper rifle comes in\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nOddly, there’s nothing listed there from Hosni. Is that because they don’t have to list stuff they paid for?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}