{"id":529350,"date":"2010-04-15T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T03:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2010-04-15T23:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T03:01:18","slug":"no-flag-strange-artwork-soaring-interest-and-nutty%c2%a0psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529350","title":{"rendered":"No Flag, Strange Artwork, Soaring Interest And Nutty\u00a0Psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*Obama orders our  flag taken down.<\/strong> United States military  personnel in Haiti  have been ordered not to fly the American flag. A spokesman explains that \u201cWe  are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner.\u201d Isn\u2019t  that absurd? The whole world knows we\u2019re there on a mission of mercy, not conquest.  By the way, all of our \u201cinternational partners,\u201d including Britain, France and Croatia,  proudly fly their own flags.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Why not just eat  them?<\/strong> I read that a high school teacher in northern Utah had his students make a 6,400-square-foot  replica of Vincent van Gogh\u2019s famous painting, \u201cStarry Night.\u201d The artwork,  which covered the floor of the school\u2019s gymnasium, was made from two tons of  the colorful Malt-O-Meal breakfast cereal. My only question is,&nbsp;why?<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Buffett is a safer  bet than Obama.<\/strong> Hardly anyone noticed, but on the same day that Obamacare passed the House, U.S. government  debt lost its \u201crisk-free\u201d status. For the first time in history you would earn  less interest loaning money to a private company\u2014Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire  Hathaway\u2014than to the U.S. Government. I\u2019m afraid this is just the beginning of  seeing interest rates soar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Another great  quote.<\/strong> <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> ran a  fascinating piece called \u201cWhy Psychiatry Needs Therapy\u201d in its Feb. 27-28  weekend edition. In it the author warned, \u201cPatients who seek psychiatric help  today for mood disorders stand a good chance of being diagnosed with a disease  that doesn\u2019t exist and treated with a medication little more effective than a  placebo.\u201d In other words, you\u2019d be nuts to trust a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Obama orders our flag taken down. United States military personnel in Haiti have been ordered not to fly the American flag. A spokesman explains that \u201cWe are not here as an occupation force, but as an international partner.\u201d Isn\u2019t that absurd? The whole world knows we\u2019re there on a mission of mercy, not conquest. By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}