{"id":18992,"date":"2010-05-05T15:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18992"},"modified":"2010-05-05T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:26:42","slug":"matthis-skates-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18992","title":{"rendered":"Matthis skates again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the last Board member voted yesterday and Matthis gets to burn as many flags as he wants in the name of the IVAW.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-skates.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18993\" title=\"matthis-skates\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-skates.jpg?resize=359%2C492\" alt=\"matthis-skates\" width=\"359\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-skates.jpg?w=359&amp;ssl=1 359w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/matthis-skates.jpg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Matthis can be believed the deciding vote was cast by octogenarian Wes Davey pictured below delivering an ultimatum to John McCain at the Republican National Convention in 2008;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/wes-davey.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18994\" title=\"wes-davey\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/wes-davey.jpg?resize=275%2C333\" alt=\"wes-davey\" width=\"275\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/wes-davey.jpg?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/wes-davey.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, that was a few years ago, so we have an artist&#8217;s rendering of what we imagine Davey looks like today;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2cwwl54.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18995\" title=\"2cwwl54\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2cwwl54.png?resize=500%2C334\" alt=\"2cwwl54\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2cwwl54.png?w=529&amp;ssl=1 529w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2cwwl54.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now you guys know who to thank for ya all being Matthis today. It&#8217;s the same as when you all supported Carl Webb&#8217;s toxic lunacy &#8211; now whether or not you like it, you support flag burning by being members of the IVAW. How&#8217;s it feel? <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re all flag-burning Socialists by staying in the organization &#8211; I&#8217;m not trying to shame you into leaving &#8211; if you&#8217;re still there after everything you&#8217;ve seen the last few years, being a flag-burning socialist ain&#8217;t bringing you out.<\/p>\n<p>So wear your T-shirt with pride and do Matthis&#8217; bidding right along with that guy on your left and right who didn&#8217;t go to Iraq, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the last Board member voted yesterday and Matthis gets to burn as many flags as he wants in the name of the IVAW. If Matthis can be believed the deciding vote was cast by octogenarian Wes Davey pictured below delivering an ultimatum to John McCain at the Republican National Convention in 2008; Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-usual-suspects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-4Wk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}