{"id":360,"date":"2007-07-17T21:51:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=360"},"modified":"2007-07-17T21:52:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T03:52:02","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Good thing we elected Dems and ended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/printpage\/?url=http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/sham_earmark_reform.html\">culture of corruption<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/07\/17\/border.agents.ap\/index.html\">the Senate<\/a> wanting the border patrol to shoot people in the back.  Now savor this quote:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Feinstein said she wants to change a law used by Sutton that required the agents receive at least 10 years for firing their weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, Di?  You&#8217;re gun-grabbing party was the one that passed those fucking laws.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not that excited that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/13\/us\/13children.html?ex=1341979200&#038;en=cdc52e86d90724cc&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">teenagers are having less sex<\/a>.  Sex is good.  But I am pleased that condom use is up and pregnancy is way way down &#8212; apparently kids are ignoring the abstinence-only education in favor the ABC approach. But how much do you want to bet that:\n<p> a) all our politicans will claim credit for this;<\/p>\n<p> b) they will all claim our children are in danger and need more government programs.<\/li>\n<li>Normal Borlaug is getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/15\/AR2007071501273.html?sub=AR\">Congressional Gold Medal<\/a>. About time.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing we elected Dems and ended the culture of corruption. Read about the Senate wanting the border patrol to shoot people in the back. Now savor this quote: Feinstein said she wants to change a law used by Sutton that required the agents receive at least 10 years for firing their weapons. Um, Di? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-5O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}