{"id":456,"date":"2007-08-31T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=456"},"modified":"2007-08-31T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:24:18","slug":"a-day-late-and-a-dollar-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"A Day Late and a Dollar Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly news for Friday, but CNN has apprently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/30\/btsc.chance.nukes\/index.html\">discovered<\/a> the Soviet Union&#8217;s long sordid history with nukes. Too bad the MSM wasn&#8217;t terribly interested in talking about the horrors of communism when it might have made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>(And before you make a moral equivalence to our bombing of Japan, let me remind you that we were at war.)<\/p>\n<p>All socialist systems make these sort of calculations. How much would it cost to evacuate these people against the benefits of seeing what radiation does to babies? We&#8217;ll be seeing a lot more of these drive-by incidents as our own system gets more socialized and people become assets of the state rather than individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly news for Friday, but CNN has apprently discovered the Soviet Union&#8217;s long sordid history with nukes. Too bad the MSM wasn&#8217;t terribly interested in talking about the horrors of communism when it might have made a difference. (And before you make a moral equivalence to our bombing of Japan, let me remind you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Day Late and a Dollar Short<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-7m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}