{"id":2215,"date":"2007-08-17T01:05:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/potpourri_10\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T01:05:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T05:05:29","slug":"potpourri_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/potpourri_10\/","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tony Snow says he is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/08\/16\/sinking-ship-to-lose-more-rats\/\">quit his job<\/a> as White House press secretary when his &#8220;money runs out.&#8221;&nbsp; Snow&#8217;s salary is $168,000.&nbsp; One would assume that he also gets comprehensive health insurance coverage, though that may be assuming too much with this administration.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span class=\"byline\">Fred Kaplan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2172285\/\">hammers<\/a> <\/span>Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s essay in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.org\/20070901faessay86501\/rudolph-giuliani\/toward-a-realistic-peace.html\"><i>Foreign Affairs<\/i><\/a>.&nbsp; Unsurprisingly, the essay&#8217;s main focus is the &#8220;War on Terror.&#8221;&nbsp; Not much at all regarding trade, energy, China, or America&#8217;s relationship to the vast majority of countries.&nbsp; I suspect Giuliani doesn&#8217;t want voters to dwell much on those bread and butter issues.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;<span class=\"news_story_title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=a_pIZ20xQxeU&amp;refer=home\">Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp; One of the owners pleaded guilty to fraud today.&nbsp; And we wonder how the Pentagon can spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Department of Homeland Security may require national parks visitors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/08\/16\/real.id\/index.html\">to present passports<\/a> in states that don&#8217;t comply with &#8220;Real ID&#8221; program requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Ahh, Romney.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/016691.php\">Not quite ready for prime time<\/a> with respect to foreign policy.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2007\/08\/open-thread-has.html\">stealth Fed rate cut<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>From the Department of 1990s Irony:\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YENbElb5-xY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YENbElb5-xY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It would almost be funny if so many people hadn&#8217;t been killed during the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing thing is that Cheney, by virtue of his current support of this military action (which he once opposed), is deemed by many to be a person who understands the serious nature of the times we live in.  In reality, Cheney&#8217;s public statements show he doesn&#8217;t understand anything that&#8217;s going on in Iraq.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/potpourri_10\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Potpourri\"><p>Tony Snow says he is going to quit his job as White House press secretary when his &#8220;money runs out.&#8221;&nbsp; Snow&#8217;s salary is $168,000.&nbsp; One would assume that he also gets comprehensive health insurance coverage, though that may be assuming too much with this administration. Fred Kaplan hammers Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s essay in Foreign Affairs.&nbsp; Unsurprisingly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}