{"id":1070,"date":"2004-06-22T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:43:49","slug":"1070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/22\/1070\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com\/StoryFT\/FullStory&#038;c=StoryFT&#038;cid=1087373157793&#038;p=1012571727085\" target=\"new\">UN slams US over spending Iraq funds<\/a>.  It goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>United Nations-mandated auditors have sharply criticised the US occupation authority for the way it has spent more than $11bn in Iraqi oil revenues and say they have faced &#8220;resistance&#8221; from coalition officials.<\/p>\n<p>In an interim report, obtained by the Financial Times, KPMG says the Development Fund for Iraq, which is managed by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority and channels oil revenue into reconstruction projects, is &#8220;open to fraudulent acts&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha ha ha ha!  Hooo.  And then the UN says, &#8220;the CPA is open to fraudulent acts.&#8221;   Ha ha ha ha haa!<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, it&#8217;s hard to type with the tears from the laughter in my eyes.  That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\" target=\"new\">Matt Drudge<\/a>, who told me this one, is a stitch, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN slams US over spending Iraq funds. It goes like this: United Nations-mandated auditors have sharply criticised the US occupation authority for the way it has spent more than $11bn in Iraqi oil revenues and say they have faced &#8220;resistance&#8221; from coalition officials. In an interim report, obtained by the Financial Times, KPMG says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23172,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/23172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}