{"id":9159,"date":"2005-06-25T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/25\/things-can-always-get-worse\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T20:00:11","slug":"things-can-always-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/25\/things-can-always-get-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Things can always get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Again and again I find myself agreeing with this wise thought: “Things can always get worse.”. If you thought that having George Bush for the president sucked, than imagine having this guy<\/a> instead. Now that would be a start of World War III coincedenting with Civil War II and Great Election Revolution. Probably some more military activity would have been noticed everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

Basically, this is a list of “wisdom” bits from a highly decorated Special Forces Combat Veteran and ex-POW Major Mark Smith. This list includes things like:<\/p>\n

If any country, group, religious sect or individual threatens America, we must kill them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

There is no need to search for answers as to why some overseas do not like us. We should not care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make sure to also read the comments to the article. It would have been a lot funnier if it wasn’t so serious…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Again and again I find myself agreeing with this wise thought: “Things can always get worse.”. If you thought that having George Bush for the president sucked, than imagine having this guy instead. Now that would be a start of World War III coincedenting with Civil War II and Great Election Revolution. Probably some more … Continue reading Things can always get worse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10327,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/14\/the-rise-of-worse-is-better\/","url_meta":{"origin":9159,"position":0},"title":"The Rise of “Worse is Better”","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rise of \"Worse is Better\" is a famous essay by Richard Gabriel - Distinguished Engineer and Principle Investigator at Sun Microsystems, which closely related to the \"It's Not Software\" article that I've just blogged about. 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