{"id":4057,"date":"2011-01-21T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2011-01-21T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:46:25","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A verse I found highlighted by a friend on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%2026:18-19&amp;version=NIV1984\" target=\"_blank\"><font size=\"2\">Proverbs 26:18-19<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New International Version 1984, \u00a91984)<\/font><\/h4>\n<p><sup>18<\/sup> Like a madman shooting       <br \/>&#160;&#160; firebrands or deadly arrows       <br \/><sup>19<\/sup> is a man who deceives his neighbor       <br \/>&#160;&#160; and says, \u201cI was only joking!\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Left seems to forget their own hateful rhetoric when they start to point fingers at Sarah Palin. \u201c\u2026a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That\u2019s a fact.\u201d \u201cSomebody\u2019s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he\u2019s going to explode like a giant blimp.\u201d Indeed. These and other gems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qando.net\/?p=10167\" target=\"_blank\">at Q&amp;O<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=mckee&amp;date=110117\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/110117\/wells.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>On the (much) lighter side, I have finally been convinced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2281146\/\" target=\"_blank\">you should only put 1 space after a period<\/a>, not two. I&#8217;m endeavoring to do so in this post, but it&#8217;s a hard habit to break. <\/p>\n<p>Living up their promises, the Republicans have put forth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/washington-whispers\/articles\/2011\/01\/20\/house-gop-lists-25-trillion-in-spending-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal for $2.5 trillion of spending cuts<\/a>. Since it&#8217;s that amount over 10 years, it&#8217;s <em>still<\/em> only a drop in the bucket. But it&#8217;s more than they have suggested in the past (as far as I know) and certainly more than Democrats ever have. If the Dems want to criticize the choices of where to cut, let&#8217;s just see them propose their own.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in the Salvation Army denomination. (Yes, it&#8217;s a denomination.) Representatives from around the world are currently meeting to elect the next General, the administrative head of the Salvation Army. You can follow events on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvationarmy.org\/ihq\/www_sa.nsf\/vw-dynamic-arrays\/F20D29762E4ACACF802577E000382B8A?openDocument\" target=\"_blank\">their web page<\/a>, get e-mail updates, or even follow them on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/highcouncil2011\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting sugar, sodium and trans fats. Buying more produce locally. Cutting price premiums for healthier food options. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1719180\/walmart-reveals-details-of-quest-to-cut-the-nations-waistline\" target=\"_blank\">That&#8217;s Wal-Mart for you.<\/a> (Yeah, <em>that<\/em> Wal-Mart).<\/p>\n<p>In Houston, it&#8217;s apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/normanhooben.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/did-jesus-have-permit-to-feed-loaves.html\" target=\"_blank\">safer for the homeless to go hungry<\/a> than to get a meal that hasn&#8217;t been government certified.<\/p>\n<p>Reason TV asks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N_VHEts3fqk&amp;feature=player_embedded#!\" target=\"_blank\">what happened to the antiwar movement?<\/a> It gives a serious look at the disappearance of a group that was so huge while Bush was President. <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/113566\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Reynolds notes<\/a>, they were useful idiots until they stopped being useful.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:64e55b9c-752c-4ea7-b793-bfdbfed660c8\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N_VHEts3fqk?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N_VHEts3fqk?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/20\/AR2011012003687.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Krauthammer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Suppose someone &#8211; say, the president of United States &#8211; proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now. I&#8217;ve got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years: We increase spending by $540 billion while we increase taxes by $770 billion. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d be laughed out of town. And yet, this is precisely what the Democrats are claiming as a virtue of Obamacare.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some say that if spending $X saves us $Y down the road(where Y is greater than X), then the government should spend it. But ObamaCare is much more a behemoth than simply judicious spending on road repairs before they get much worse. The claim that repealing ObamaCare will <em>cost<\/em> us money is ridiculous for Krauthammer&#8217;s reason.&#160; Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>And finally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=asay&amp;date=110106\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/110106\/asay.gif\" width=\"420\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A verse I found highlighted by a friend on Facebook: Proverbs 26:18-19 (New International Version 1984, \u00a91984) 18 Like a madman shooting &#160;&#160; firebrands or deadly arrows 19 is a man who deceives his neighbor &#160;&#160; and says, \u201cI was only joking!\u201d The Left seems to forget their own hateful rhetoric when they start to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,15,18,21,60,22,29,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-liberal","category-links","category-media","category-religion","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","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=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}