{"id":98,"date":"2006-05-08T00:36:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/radio-open-source-podcast-and-president-bushs-sneaky-trips-around-the-law\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T15:36:28","slug":"radio-open-source-podcast-and-president-bushs-sneaky-trips-around-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/radio-open-source-podcast-and-president-bushs-sneaky-trips-around-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Open Source Podcast and President Bush&#8217;s sneaky trips around the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to a few Podcasts ever since I got an iPod, and one of the ones that I really enjoy on the morning commute is <a href=\"http:\/\/radioopensource.org\/\">Radio Open Source<\/a>, a show that has a very wide range of interesting topics and a fairly balanced presentation of the issues.  Of course, I say balanced, but the host, Christopher Lydon, is definitely a liberal kind of guy, and there are liberal leanings in the show, but I really like that they take the time to really talk about an issue over the course of the hour-long show.  It is also nice that the show just about covers my door-to-door commute from home to work.  <\/p>\n<p><P>  Today&#8217;s show just amazed me.  It was about the signing statements that President Bush quietly files after signing a bill into law.  The signing statements, which I had never heard of before, are supposed to give an indication of how the President interprets the bill, but in Bush&#8217;s case have been used to selectively ignore portions of bills that he does not like.  <\/p>\n<p><P>  For the full story you should read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2006\/04\/30\/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF\">article by Charlie Savage explaining how Bush uses signing statements to side-step the due process of the law<\/a>.  It is well worth the read, and I just can not believe how far Bush has gone to sidestep the political process that makes America potentially so great.  You can read more comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioopensource.org\/presidential-signing-statements\/\">Radio Open Source page for this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><P>  Also, congratulations to me on what is probably my first blog post that qualifies for entry into the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blogosphere\">blogosphere<\/a>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to a few Podcasts ever since I got an iPod, and one of the ones that I really enjoy on the morning commute is Radio Open Source, a show that has a very wide range of interesting topics and a fairly balanced presentation of the issues. Of course, I say balanced, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}