{"id":573830,"date":"2010-05-20T23:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2010-05-20T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:01:28","slug":"annie-hannity-goldman-sachs-and%c2%a0gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/573830","title":{"rendered":"Annie, Hannity, Goldman Sachs And\u00a0Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*Leapin\u2019 lizards,  folks, Annie\u2019s gone.<\/strong> I\u2019m sorry to report that Little Orphan Annie won\u2019t live to see 100. The folks  at Tribune Media Services say the last column of the iconic comic strip has  been sent to the handful of newspapers that still run it. The column made its  debut on Aug. 5, 1924. Annie and her dog Sandy  have enjoyed a lot of unlikely adventures since then. The spunky little girl\u2014the  inspiration for a radio show, several movies and a Broadway musical\u2014never got  any older. She never got any pupils in her eyes, either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Sean Hannity knows  one when he sees one.<\/strong> Re: my column a few weeks ago, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-wood\/is-barack-obama-a-socialist\/\">Is Barack Obama a Socialist?<\/a><\/i>,  one popular media conservative says he has no doubts. In his best-selling book, <em>Conservative Victory\u2014Defeating Obama\u2019s  Radical Agenda<\/em>, Sean Hannity titled one chapter \u201cObama the Socialist.\u201d In  it he says our president \u201cmeets the dictionary definition\u201d of being one. I  still disagree, Sean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Guess who got the  most money from Goldman?<\/strong> I\u2019m not talking about bailouts to banking buddies, but  instead, political contributions by those \u201cWall Street fat cats\u201d our  politicians love to bash. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Goldman Sachs  wrote a <strong>lot<\/strong> of checks to the  contenders. Here\u2019s who got what: No. 1, Barack Obama\u2014$996,595; No. 2, Hillary  Clinton\u2014$411,150; No. 3, Mitt Romney\u2014$234,275; No. 4, John McCain\u2014$230,095. Looks  like Wall Street can spot a winner when it sees one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Would you like  gold with that? <\/strong>Did  you see that large, full-color photo of a gold-dispensing vending machine last  week? It ran in several newspapers, including <em>The<\/em> <em>Washington Post<\/em> and  the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. The machine  is located\u2014you won\u2019t be surprised to learn\u2014in the lobby of the Emirate Palace  hotel in Abu Dhabi.  Maybe there\u2019s a trend here. Last year Harrods\u2019s, the luxury department store in  London, began  selling gold coins and bars to its affluent customers who wanted them. How soon  before we see gold being offered for sale at Wal-Mart?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Chip Wood <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Leapin\u2019 lizards, folks, Annie\u2019s gone. I\u2019m sorry to report that Little Orphan Annie won\u2019t live to see 100. The folks at Tribune Media Services say the last column of the iconic comic strip has been sent to the handful of newspapers that still run it. The column made its debut on Aug. 5, 1924. Annie [&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-573830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573830","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=573830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}