{"id":7836,"date":"2010-12-02T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T02:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2010-12-02T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T02:27:53","slug":"the-top-ten-ways-to-plug-a-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=7836","title":{"rendered":"The Top Ten Ways to Plug a Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Stick to the obvious. \u201cNo Comment\u201d is still the most commonly used and reliable vocabulary of any politician.<\/p>\n

2. Start each cable\/email\/correspondence with a Declaration: The following\u00a0communication may contain hot, smelly, and explosive content. Viewers discretion is advised.<\/p>\n

3. Another attempt with \u201cwash your hands\u201d tactics: start with this, \u201cDon\u2019t know if it is true or not, but here it is anyway\u201d, OR \u201cis there any merit in this? Please comment!\u201d<\/p>\n

4. Call the Plumbers, the White House Plumbers [a], that is.<\/p>\n

5. Apply Leak Ender 2000, the miracle leak sealer [b]\u00a0.<\/p>\n

6. Follow Mayor Ford\u2019s shining example. Stop the gravy (gluey) train (leak), declared \u201cWar on the Car\u201d (Info Super Highway) is over. We are going underground.<\/p>\n

7. Divert attention, start another war (Korean?)<\/p>\n

8. Follow the advice of an ex-Harper advisor [c]\u00a0.<\/p>\n

9. Hello magazine, National Enquirer, Entertainment Tonight, \u516b\u5366\u96dc\u8a8c \u2026\u2026\u2026, ladies and gentlemen, here is our latest, the brand new Gossip Girls (and Guys) show, the politically correct WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n

10. Wear a Pamper.<\/p>\n

[a] The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, were a covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media. Its members branched into illegal activities working for the Committee to Re-elect the President, including the Watergate break-ins and the ensuing Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n

[b] The miracle sealer that stops virtually any leak immediately! Great for gutters, pipes, walls, pools, flashing, roofs and more! (a TV commercial)<\/p>\n

[c] Mr. Flanagan,\u00a0an ex-Harper advisor, now a Calgary University professor,\u00a0made his comments on CBC\u2019s Power and Politics<\/em> show Tuesday evening. In a discussion about the significance of the leaks, Mr. Flanagan said: \u201cI think Assange (of WikiLeaks), should be assassinated, actually. I think Obama should put out a contract or maybe use a drone or something.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses) 1. Stick to the obvious. \u201cNo Comment\u201d is still the most commonly used and reliable vocabulary of any politician. 2. Start each cable\/email\/correspondence with a Declaration: The following\u00a0communication may contain hot, smelly, and explosive content. Viewers discretion … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,111],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-through-rose-coloured-glasses","tag-fb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7893,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}