{"id":2244,"date":"2009-02-27T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2009-02-27T12:06:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:06:29","slug":"earth-to-republicans-curing-stds-would-probably-be-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/02\/27\/earth-to-republicans-curing-stds-would-probably-be-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth to Republicans: Curing STDs Would Probably Be a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Morning Edition this morning, there was a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=101234136\">the annual Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a> which contained a line which made me guffaw:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Representative Paul Ryan: &#8220;[rant on spending in stimulus plan]&#8230;$400 million dollars to study sexually transmitted diseases!&#8221; [rant on about how his daughter is more responsible that President Obama]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh my!  The horror.  Actually spending money studying diseases that infect 65 million U.S. citizens.  Yes Rep. Ryan, it would be a real shame if that money improved the lives of those 65 million people (and maybe it might even help, you know, those outside of the United States as well&#8230;I know, I know blasphemy.)<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m all for the Republican&#8217;s ranting on the stimulus bill and spending, but really guys, why do you keep picking on the scientific studies (Jindal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/article\/20090225\/alaskans-fume-over-jindal-volcano-monitoring-gripe\">&#8220;something called volcano monitoring&#8221;<\/a>, McCain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/mccains-beef-with-bears\/\">Bear DNA<\/a>)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Morning Edition this morning, there was a story about the annual Conservative Political Action Conference which contained a line which made me guffaw: Representative Paul Ryan: &#8220;[rant on spending in stimulus plan]&#8230;$400 million dollars to study sexually transmitted diseases!&#8221; [rant on about how his daughter is more responsible that President Obama] Oh my! The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/02\/27\/earth-to-republicans-curing-stds-would-probably-be-a-good-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earth to Republicans: Curing STDs Would Probably Be a Good Thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,56,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}