{"id":2082,"date":"2009-07-25T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:08:53","slug":"an-illustration-of-how-were-moving-too-fast-regardless-of-the-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"An illustration of how we&#8217;re moving too fast, regardless of the direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/dash_toward_socialism.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I made a little graphic to illustrate something I heard earlier today: President Obama spent <b>six months<\/b> picking out a dog for his kids, but wants to force us into socialized medicine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSN1017928320090719?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\" target=\"_blank\">by the end of this upcoming week<\/a>. Hope\u2122! Change\u2122!<\/p>\n<p>Rather than act like so-called &#8220;professional&#8221; journalists, I&#8217;ll document this a little bit:<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/news\/barack-obama-we-want-a-shelter-dog-a-mutt-like-me\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama was looking for a dog in November.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/09\/04\/12\/Meet-Bo-the-First-Dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bo the Dog shows up at the White House in April, six months later.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogmagazine.net\/archives\/2264\/obama-goes-back-on-promise-to-adopt-a-crossbreed-shelter-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Another broken promise, since Barack Obama promised to adopt a shelter dog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dog fans: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bo_%28dog%29\" target=\"_blank\">Bo has his own WIkipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made it clear I&#8217;m against government-run health care. What they&#8217;re trying to do now isn&#8217;t even about health, care, it&#8217;s about <b>control<\/b>. But regardless of whether you agree or not, don&#8217;t you think we could take more time to overhaul <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galen.org\/component,8\/action,show_content\/id,13\/category_id,0\/blog_id,1148\/type,33\/\" target=\"_blank\">one sixth of the US economy<\/a> than it takes to select your kids&#8217; pet?<\/p>\n<p>If you agree, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/etc\/dash_toward_socialism1024px.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">download this full size graphic I made<\/a> and pass it along (without modifying it, please). Let&#8217;s put the pressure on before we find ourselves stuck in a system that was forced upon us in haste and which none of us will want!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a little graphic to illustrate something I heard earlier today: President Obama spent six months picking out a dog for his kids, but wants to force us into socialized medicine by the end of this upcoming week. Hope\u2122! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}