{"id":1859,"date":"2008-11-21T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2008-11-21T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:47:06","slug":"friday-notes-expectations-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/21\/friday-notes-expectations-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Expectations Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not entirely sure what to think of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano at DHS, but knowing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/01\/opinion\/01napolitano.html\">she is generally smart on immigration<\/a> and was instrumental in <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/show\/130182.html\">the effort to knock down the REAL ID Act<\/a> is encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Glad to know that even the President Elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/20\/obama.cell.breach\/index.html\">shouldn&#8217;t have a reasonable expectation of privacy<\/a> with Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>A money bet against <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2008\/11\/20\/preview_of_special_obama_inaugratio.php\">this not being executed well<\/a> is probably a safe one.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Iceland &#8211; a textbook case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeingtheforest.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/how_did_iceland.htm\">the benefits of massive deregulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>More on this later, but in case that turns out to be a lot later, I wanted to highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/mattsteinglass.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/17\/we-won-the-vietnam-war-fdr-caused-the-depression-and-other-useful-historical-fictions\/\">this good piece on managing current expectations by rewriting the past<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The site, in general, is worth spending some time on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not entirely sure what to think of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano at DHS, but knowing that she is generally smart on immigration and was instrumental in the effort to knock down the REAL ID Act is encouraging. ~ Glad to know that even the President Elect shouldn&#8217;t have a reasonable expectation of privacy with Verizon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-policy","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}