{"id":70157,"date":"2017-02-07T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70157"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:35:16","slug":"corrupt-politicians-we-got-nothin-on-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70157","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt politicians? We got nothin’ on Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romania, as you may recall, was the home of Nadia Comenic, the Olympic preztel – er, \u00a0gymnast who never smiled but could twist herself into Silly Putty on legs.<\/p>\n

Back\u00a0when the Soviet Union disintegrated, Romania managed somehow to stay intact and is now running itself. Unfortunately, the Romanian population doesn’t appreciate low-level corruption in politics quite as much as we do here in the US of A and is dead set on putting those wankers in jail. They’ve had low-level corruption for a long time, and people are tired of it.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/romanias-long-battle-corruption-181348792.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The low-level corruption immunity has been revoked, but the people of Romania are protesting the possibility that it is nothing more than a gesture, and the corruption will continue unabated unless they succeed in demanding jail for these jackasses.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/11de47e4-ebc9-11e6-930f-061b01e23655<\/a><\/p>\n

What a novel idea: make a bad politician face the consequences of her slimy behavior. \u00a0Could we do that here? There’s an empty prison around here some place. The townspeople could use the wages if we sent all those greedy slugs there for a little cooling time.<\/p>\n

Just a thought for Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romania, as you may recall, was the home of Nadia Comenic, the Olympic preztel – er, \u00a0gymnast who never smiled but could twist herself into Silly Putty on legs. Back\u00a0when the Soviet Union disintegrated, Romania managed somehow to stay intact and is now running itself. Unfortunately, the Romanian population doesn’t appreciate low-level corruption in politics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ifz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}