{"id":3339,"date":"2010-05-21T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2010-05-21T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:00:43","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3339","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may start doing this more often.\u00a0 I collect links during the week, some I comment on here, and some just languish in Google Bookmarks.\u00a0 But instead of a daily report of links like my co-blogger Mark, I&#8217;m going to save it all until the end of the week.\u00a0 This installment will be a bit longer than others since I&#8217;ve got some aging links here that really want to see the light of day.\u00a0 So here they are, usually, but not always, in reverse chronological order:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/may\/21\/anti-obama-tack-buoys-some-democrats\/\">Coattails?\u00a0 What coattails?<\/a> &#8220;Some Democrats on the campaign trail have hit upon a winning campaign tactic: Run against President Obama and his agenda &#8212; especially the health care overhaul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seeking asylum in the US for &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/may\/18.15.html\">homeschooling persecution?<\/a> &#8220;A German Christian family received asylum in Tennessee after being severely penalized for illegally homeschooling their children in Germany.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;ve covered this particular situation before; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaytons.org\/essays\/considerettes\/?p=1810\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaytons.org\/essays\/considerettes\/?p=1890\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaytons.org\/essays\/considerettes\/?p=1968\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaytons.org\/essays\/considerettes\/?p=2007\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaytons.org\/essays\/considerettes\/?p=2029\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaytons.org\/essays\/considerettes\/?p=2042\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>California, parts of which are boycotting Arizona for it&#8217;s new immigration law, which just enforce existing federal law, should take a look at it&#8217;s own lawbooks first.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/14233\">They might find something familiar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The economic meltdown in Greece should be a wake-up call to politicians of both parties in the US.\u00a0 Otherwise, it may turn out to be, rather, <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/oftheeising\/2010\/05\/17\/greece-coming-attractions-or-wake-up-call\/\">a coming attraction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ObamaCare(tm) is predicted to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/98025-health-reform-threatens-to-overwhelm-already-crammed-emergency-rooms\">increase the crowding<\/a><\/em> in our hospitals&#8217; emergency rooms.\u00a0 &#8220;Some Democrats agree with this assessment. 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Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) suspects the fallout that occurred in Massachusetts\u2019 emergency rooms could happen nationwide after health reform kicks in.&#8221;\u00a0 But he still voted for this snake oil anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=126668465\">&#8220;Economic Woes Threaten Chavez&#8217;s Socialist Vision&#8221;<\/a> Only on NPR would this be news.\u00a0 For the rest of this, it&#8217;s a redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>Comedy Central stands on the bedrock of free speech and will mock anyone, just as long as there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3i8f1f42046a622bdaaccc74ab015c5bdf\">no chance of getting beheaded for it<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;The show in development, &#8220;JC,&#8221; is a half-hour about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his &#8220;powerful but apathetic father&#8221; and live a regular life in New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green energy <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/mr-president-please-think-of-s\">falling by the wayside in Europe<\/a>.\u00a0 Seems the massive subsidies for this alleged cost-saving energy are too much for governments going through financial troubles.\u00a0 Should we (will we) take note?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may start doing this more often.\u00a0 I collect links during the week, some I comment on here, and some just languish in Google Bookmarks.\u00a0 But instead of a daily report of links like my co-blogger Mark, I&#8217;m going to save it all until the end of the week.\u00a0 This installment will be a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27,9,15,66,63,18,275,67,60,26,29,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-democrats","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-education","category-energy","category-government","category-healthcare","category-homeschooling","category-links","category-politics","category-religion","category-venezuela"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}