{"id":4305,"date":"2011-05-20T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2011-05-20T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:21:21","slug":"friday-link-wrap-up-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the minimum wage goes up, low-wage jobs are lost. This isn&#8217;t a prediction, it&#8217;s an observation. The Wall St. Journal notes <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703859304576307201724065640.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s happening again<\/a>, at the worst time for it, and mostly for minorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unwatch.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/11\/its-official-shamed-assad-pulls-syria-out-of-un-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syria pulled out of the running for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.<\/a> The problem is that they pulled out rather than being pushed. Given the number of human rights violators on that council, they could have easily been approved.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.financialpost.com\/2011\/04\/07\/climate-models-go-cold\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read why here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/huh-wikileaks-threatens-its-own-leakers-with-20-million-penalty-if-they-leak-elsewhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">The headline says it all<\/a>: &quot;WikiLeaks Threatens Its Own Leakers With $20 Million Penalty If They Leak Elsewhere&quot;. Transparency for thee but not for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/kalamazoo\/index.ssf\/2011\/05\/solar_farm_near_climax_loosing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Green energy losing green<\/a>: A solar farm in Texas is losing money because the property taxes are so high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/high-speed-failure.html\" target=\"_blank\">High-speed rail losing speed<\/a>: &quot;California&#8217;s much-vaunted high-speed rail project is, to put it bluntly, a train wreck.&quot; Of course, the solution, according to the LA Times, is do it over, throwing good money after bad ($43 billion of bad money).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2011\/05\/19\/autotrader-survey-shows-most-motorists-go-green-to-save-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">What a shock!<\/a> &quot;Autotrader survey shows most motorists go green to &#8216;save money, not the environment&#8217;.&quot; Make green energy affordable, and the world will beat a path to your door.<\/p>\n<p>A big reason health care costs are rising so fast is because of central planning (aka Medicare, Medicaid). The Democrats solution? <a href=\"http:\/\/beldar.blogs.com\/beldarblog\/2011\/05\/health-care-reform-in-two-sentences.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>More <\/em>central planning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com\/2011\/05\/wi-attorney-general-releases-100-pages-of-documented-threats-against-lawmakers-during-the-budget-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Civility Watch<\/a>: Wisconsin Attorney General releases 100 pages of threats against lawmakers during the budget battle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/regional\/view.bg?articleid=1338789\" target=\"_blank\">The White House shut out a reporter<\/a> from the Boston Herald because of a critical editorial that the Herald put on their front page. The issue with Obama is not Fox News; it&#8217;s anyone who disagrees with him. But if you didn&#8217;t know about this, it&#8217;s not your fault. The rest of the media, who you&#8217;d think would be all over this treatment of colleagues, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/tom-blumer\/2011\/05\/19\/boston-who-establishment-press-colleagues-virtually-ignore-wh-shutout-bo\" target=\"_blank\">were virtually silent on the matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-war crowd has seemingly melted away into the woodwork with the election of President Obama. I mean, if George W. Bush had violated federal law by invading a country without, within 60 days, getting congressional approval, how loud would the outcry have been, from the Left and the Media? Instead, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/libya-president-obama-congress-faces-questions-war-powers\/story?id=13642002\" target=\"_blank\">a collective yawn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry, no cartoon this week.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the minimum wage goes up, low-wage jobs are lost. This isn&#8217;t a prediction, it&#8217;s an observation. The Wall St. Journal notes it&#8217;s happening again, at the worst time for it, and mostly for minorities. Syria pulled out of the running for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. The problem is that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,15,63,16,17,18,275,21,60,22,36,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-energy","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-government","category-healthcare","category-liberal","category-links","category-media","category-science","category-united-nations","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}