{"id":96,"date":"2006-10-21T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/gee-wiz-flip-floppers"},"modified":"2006-10-21T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T22:16:00","slug":"gee-wiz-flip-floppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/gee-wiz-flip-floppers","title":{"rendered":"Gee Wiz &#8211; flip floppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is today&#8217;s news from the NYT&#8230;..that &#8220;left leaning&#8221; newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bush administration is drafting a timetable for the Iraqi government to address sectarian divisions and assume a larger role in securing the country, senior American officials said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this what some of the Dems suggested a while ago?  And for which they were labeled TRAITORS?  Seems to me they should have been labeled BRILLIANT &#8211; they actually wanted a plan &#8211; one with milestones or measurements or outcomes&#8230;but that&#8217;s part of a scientific methodology and some pResidents don&#8217;t &#8220;do&#8221; science.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give the administration a hint&#8230;. straight out of Psych 101 &#8211; there is a phenomenon knows as learned apathy&#8230;when someone else does everything for you and you can not do it yourself &#8211; you learn to be apathetic.  You see there is no way you will be allowed to stand on your own &#8211; so you give up&#8230;..The Iraqis have learned that nothing they can makes us leave &#8211; so they seemingly no longer bother to try.  Our stupidity at training &#8211; and recruiting &#8211; has only gotten them killed and besides that we just keep staying &#8211; so they have given up trying&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It works with kids too and that&#8217;s how shrub seemed to have been raised.  He never had to do anything for himself &#8211; Daddy or Mommy took care of all his problems&#8230;.So he became an apathetic human being &#8211; but one who was also a bully and narrow minded&#8230;.he did what he wanted, when he wanted and how he wanted&#8230;.he cared not what others thought about him or what the repercussions were of his behaviors because he knew that Daddy or Mommy or their friends would always bail him out&#8230; and they are doing it again &#8211; Baker is Daddy person and he is bailing George out..<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the earth, and humanity are paying and will continue to pay dearly for the shrub&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today&#8217;s news from the NYT&#8230;..that &#8220;left leaning&#8221; newspaper. &#8220;The Bush administration is drafting a timetable for the Iraqi government to address sectarian divisions and assume a larger role in securing the country, senior American officials said.&#8221; Isn&#8217;t this what some of the Dems suggested a while ago? And for which they were labeled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[68,59,67],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-flp-flop","tag-iraq","tag-learned-apathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}