{"id":2589,"date":"2009-12-18T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/barney-frank-and-i-agree-on-something\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:47:00","slug":"barney-frank-and-i-agree-on-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/barney-frank-and-i-agree-on-something.php","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank and I Agree on Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Over the objections of gambling opponents in Congress, the Obama administration has granted a request by US Representative Barney Frank to delay a long-scheduled federal crackdown on illegal Internet poker and casino sites.<\/p><p>Frank sought the six-month reprieve so he could keep working on a pet issue: legalizing online gambling.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The best part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2009\/12\/14\/rep_frank_gets_internet_gambling_law_delayed_for_6_months\/\">story<\/a> is this:<\/p><blockquote><p>You won&rsquo;t find the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee at a poker table or roulette wheel, as Frank doesn&rsquo;t gamble. But he said he does not want the government telling people what to do with their own money.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Frank (who happens to be my congressman)&nbsp;is absolutely right about this.&nbsp;&nbsp;Too bad he does not want to let people keep more their own money in the first place.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/70f53_6379328854053402400-7279889789573284875?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the objections of gambling opponents in Congress, the Obama administration has granted a request by US Representative Barney Frank to delay a long-scheduled federal crackdown on illegal Internet poker and casino sites.Frank sought the six-month reprieve so he could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/barney-frank-and-i-agree-on-something.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}