{"id":4222,"date":"2011-03-25T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:00:36","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4222","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/31021\" target=\"_blank\">The death panels have begun<\/a>, deciding which newborn babies live or die. Don Surber says, &quot;Under President Obama the purpose of the greatest medical system ever developed has been subverted from saving lives to saving money.&quot; To be fair, insurance companies could be accused of that as well. But they could compete on customer service. When the government tells them what they can and can&#8217;t do, and co-opts them into a national health system, the government then decides on what and will not be paid for. And there&#8217;s no competing with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, the media was deeply concerned over whether Bush would go to war without Congressional approval. Today, when Obama actually <em>does<\/em> it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.org\/biasalert\/2011\/20110322124732.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a collective yawn<\/a> (with one small exception).<\/p>\n<p>Running out of things to tax, politicians are now trying to push <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20110323\/NEWS01\/703239866\" target=\"_blank\">a toilet paper tax<\/a> in Washington. No, really.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas terrorists in Gaza broke a cease-fire to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theisraelproject.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&amp;b=3587015&amp;ct=9213689&amp;notoc=1\" target=\"_blank\">toss 50 rockets at Israel<\/a> last Saturday, while the rest of the world&#8217;s gaze was diverted to Libya. Essay question: Did you hear about this in the media, and if not, why not?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, speaking of the media covering for the President (click for a larger version):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=lester&amp;date=110322\" 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\/110322\/lester.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death panels have begun, deciding which newborn babies live or die. Don Surber says, &quot;Under President Obama the purpose of the greatest medical system ever developed has been subverted from saving lives to saving money.&quot; To be fair, insurance companies could be accused of that as well. But they could compete on customer service. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,275,53,60,52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-healthcare","category-israel","category-links","category-middle-east","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","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=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}