{"id":1500,"date":"2009-06-23T01:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2009-06-23T01:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:15:35","slug":"monday-linkorama-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"Monday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>The CBO &#8212; a relentlessly non-partisan group &#8212; estimates Obamacare will cost $1 trillion.  The solution?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0609\/23853.html\">Silence the CBO<\/a>.  But remember, it&#8217;s only conservative who ignore hard facts and data.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the way you know who to favor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/21\/uh-oh-cheerios\/\">Cheerios debate<\/a>.  CSPI is in favor of the government; therefore that position is the wrong one.<\/li>\n<li>Watchdogs are off again on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/06\/19\/nih-funds-study-men-dont-like-use-condoms\/\">condom study<\/a> costing 400 grand.  And suppose this study leads to some change that results in preventing a handful of AIDS cases? My read is that this study was peer-reviewed.  We need lawyers to stop grand-standing about it.<\/li>\n<li>Mexico is <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2009366964_mexdrug22.html\">liberalizing<\/a> their drug laws.  A blood all-out war will do that.<\/li>\n<li>Time Magazine continues to prove what a worthless rag it is &#8212; running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1906025,00.html?cnn=yes\">story<\/a> about bullet trains that parrots the party line completely.<\/li>\n<li>Radley Balko <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2009\/06\/22\/obama-keeps-campaign-promises-that-expand-government-abandons-those-that-limit-it-or-hold-it-accountable\/\">points out<\/a> that the only promises Obama is breaking are those that would limit his own power.  He has yet to break a campaign promise that would expand it.  And so it goes.<\/li>\n<li>Fat people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.c7aaeb7940626693fa418a1eab2291f6.81&#038;show_article=1\">live longer<\/a>.  Now I get to bash the CSPI twice in one linkorama.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBO &#8212; a relentlessly non-partisan group &#8212; estimates Obamacare will cost $1 trillion. The solution? Silence the CBO. But remember, it&#8217;s only conservative who ignore hard facts and data. Here&#8217;s the way you know who to favor in the Cheerios debate. CSPI is in favor of the government; therefore that position is the wrong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-oc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}