{"id":6339,"date":"2010-05-05T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:53:43","slug":"not-juxtaposed-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/not-juxtaposed-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Juxtaposed Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar characterizes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN0215833120100502?type=marketsNews\" target=\"_blank\">the United States Federal Government approach to BP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum to carry out the responsibilities they have both under the law and contractually to move forward and stop this spill,&#8221; Salazar told CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George Orwell characterizes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3_2\" target=\"_blank\">totalitarian government<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But always\u2014 do not forget this, Winston\u2014 always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face\u2014 forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frightening, isn&#8217;t it, how the Department of Interior, that is the Parks Department, for crying out loud, sounds like Big Brother?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font> Welcome, Instapundit and Transterrestrial readers!  If you&#8217;re in IT, check out my QA blog <a href=\"http:\/\/qahatesyou.com\">QA Hates You<\/a>.  And don&#8217;t forget to visit my little corner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/jctshirts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Press<\/a> for cool gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar characterizes the United States Federal Government approach to BP: &#8220;Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum to carry out the responsibilities they have both under the law and contractually to move forward and stop this spill,&#8221; Salazar told CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; program. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","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=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}