{"id":259,"date":"2007-06-01T02:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T08:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=259"},"modified":"2007-06-01T02:54:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T08:54:27","slug":"friday-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes destroy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/27\/AR2007052701264.html\"> an old amusement park<\/a>.  I hope the city thinks its worth their art subsidies and other waste.<\/p>\n<p>The internet weights about the same as a <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2007\/jun\/how-much-does-the-internet-weigh\">grain of sand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cato on why we should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=8263\"> leery<\/a> of Rudy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s why: Throughout his career, Giuliani has displayed an authoritarian streak that would be all the more problematic in a man who would assume executive powers vastly expanded by President Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His support of water-borading is another reason.  If Kerry were president right now, I&#8217;d support Rudy. But we need someone to repair our government&#8217;s adherence to constitutional principles.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Congress is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/01\/washington\/01intel.html?ex=1338350400&#038;en=be4f1dc72cabd1a8&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">pushing back<\/a> against the CIA gul-, er, prisons.  Four of seven Republicans. Let&#8217;s hope this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The border agent decided the TB man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/01\/health\/01tb.html?ex=1338350400&#038;en=b6bc909b4e7fd4d4&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">didn&#8217;t seem sick<\/a> so he just let him in.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;re going to stop terrorism by closing the borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes destroy an old amusement park. I hope the city thinks its worth their art subsidies and other waste. The internet weights about the same as a grain of sand. Cato on why we should be leery of Rudy: Here&#8217;s why: Throughout his career, Giuliani has displayed an authoritarian streak that would be all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[14,5,7,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-politics","category-science","category-tax-and-spend","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}