{"id":14931,"date":"2011-08-12T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14931"},"modified":"2011-08-12T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:41:59","slug":"mark-steyn-if-charlton-heston-was-horrified-to-discover-the-planet-of-the-apes-was-his-own-britons-are-beginning-to-realize-that-the-remote-desert-island-of-lord-of-the-flies-is-in-fact-loca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14931\/mark-steyn-if-charlton-heston-was-horrified-to-discover-the-planet-of-the-apes-was-his-own-britons-are-beginning-to-realize-that-the-remote-desert-island-of-lord-of-the-flies-is-in-fact-loca\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn: “If Charlton Heston was horrified to discover the Planet of the Apes was his own, Britons are beginning to realize that the remote desert island of ‘Lord Of The Flies’ is, in fact, located just off the coast of Europe in the northeast Atlantic.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m getting quit of bitching at people, but I confess, always, to taking delight in well-written castigation. For eloquent excoriation, none surpasses that of Mark Steyn:<\/a><\/p>\n

Within two generations of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, a significant proportion of the once-free British people entrusted themselves to social rewiring by liberal compassionate Big Government and thereby rendered themselves paralytic and unemployable save for nonspeaking parts in “Rise of The Planet Of The Apes.” And even that would likely be too much like hard work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Give the man your mind. He’ll give it back to you wittier, at least, if not wiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m getting quit of bitching at people, but I confess, always, to taking delight in well-written castigation. For eloquent excoriation, none surpasses that of Mark Steyn: Within two generations of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, a significant proportion of the once-free British people entrusted themselves to social rewiring by liberal compassionate Big Government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11435,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11435\/mark-steyn-when-responsibility-doesn%e2%80%99t-pay\/","url_meta":{"origin":14931,"position":0},"title":"Mark Steyn: “When Responsibility Doesn\u2019t Pay”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"National Review Online:Think of Greece as California: Every year an irresponsible and corrupt bureaucracy awards itself higher pay and better benefits paid for by an ever-shrinking wealth-generating class. 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