{"id":2327,"date":"2004-10-12T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2004\/10\/12\/kerrys-nuisance-advisory-system\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:13:28","slug":"kerrys-nuisance-advisory-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2004\/10\/12\/kerrys-nuisance-advisory-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry’s Nuisance Advisory System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the “gotta laugh to keep from crying” vein, I’m having fun with John Kerry’s interview<\/a> published in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.
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In an amazingly naive statement, Kerry thinks we can go back to a time when terrorism was simply “a nuisance.” Here’s the complete quote (in context, btw, for you Dem spinmeisters who seem to be protesting just a tad too shrilly for credibility):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ”We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance,” Kerry said. ”As a former law-enforcement person, I know we’re never going to end prostitution. We’re never going to end illegal gambling. But we’re going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn’t on the rise. It isn’t threatening people’s lives every day, and fundamentally, it’s something that you continue to fight, but it’s not threatening the fabric of your life.”<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Without getting into a discussion about how to break it to past (and future) victims of terrorism that they’ve really just been terribly bothered, I offer my vision of the new “Nuisance Level Alert System” under the Kerry administration:
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[If you want to use this image on your own site, you have my blessing…but please<\/em> upload it to your server rather than just linking to the image on mine. It’s the polite thing to do. Muchas gracias.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kerryland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: Immense thanks to the scintillating Dawn Eden<\/a> for pointing out the embarrassing misspelled word in the preceding graphic; it’s wonderful to have an ace copy editor for a friend. “What misspelling?” you ask. Never you mind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the “gotta laugh to keep from crying” vein, I’m having fun with John Kerry’s interview published in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. In an amazingly naive statement, Kerry thinks we can go back to a time when terrorism was simply “a nuisance.” Here’s the complete quote (in context, btw, for you Dem spinmeisters… Continue reading Kerry’s Nuisance Advisory System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}