{"id":26851,"date":"2016-04-22T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=26851"},"modified":"2016-12-02T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T06:01:41","slug":"linkswarm-for-april-22-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=26851","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for April 22, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

As today is a made-up celebration called “Earth Day,” be sure to have beef for dinner…<\/p>\n

  • Reminder: “Officials at VA\u2019s Phoenix hospital manipulated wait-time data to make it appear they were connecting doctors and veterans seeking appointments much faster than they actually were. This was done so VA managers at the Arizona facility could keep getting generous performance bonuses. They got their bonuses but dozens of waiting veterans died.” So how did the VA address the problem? They hired someone accused of doing the exact same thing<\/a> at another hospital.\n
  • Huge ObamaCare premium hikes are coming down the pike in 2017<\/a>. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n
  • “The largest health insurer in the U.S. has started pulling out of select Obamacare exchanges<\/a>.” (Hat tip: Instapundit<\/a>.)\n
  • Eight more ObamaCare co-ops are about to bite the dust<\/a>.\n
  • Meanwhile, ObamaCare is helping enourage opioid addiction<\/a>.\n
  • Thanks to Obama’s super<\/i>genius management, the Taliban are now winning in Afghanistan<\/a>.\n
  • “The National Labor Relations Board suspended a top-ranking Philadelphia official after receiving complaints that he helped raise money from unions for his pro-union charity<\/a>.” (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n
  • Following a congressional subpoena over Benghazi, Hillary’s state department staff hid requested files<\/a> in another department. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n
  • Is Rhode Island closing 66% of polling places<\/a> for next week’s presidential primaries? Something smells.\n
  • How Ted Cruz could beat Hillary Clinton<\/a>. “Clin\u00adton is en\u00adter\u00ading the gen\u00ader\u00adal elec\u00adtion with glar\u00ading vul\u00adner\u00adab\u00adil\u00adit\u00adies of her own. Her im\u00adage is tox\u00adic to Re\u00adpub\u00adlic\u00adans and in\u00adde\u00adpend\u00adents, and her pop\u00adular\u00adity among Demo\u00adcrats is now at an all-time low as a pres\u00adid\u00aden\u00adtial can\u00addid\u00adate, ac\u00adcord\u00ading to Gal\u00adlup\u2019s polling. It won\u2019t take a top-tier Re\u00adpub\u00adlic\u00adan can\u00addid\u00adate to win.” Also: “Cruz con\u00adsist\u00adently runs far more com\u00adpet\u00adit\u00adively against Clin\u00adton than Trump does.”\n
  • “It’s not just Wall Street banks. Most companies and groups that paid Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton<\/a> to speak between 2013 and 2015 have lobbied federal agencies in recent years, and more than one-third are government contractors, an Associated Press review has found. Their interests are sprawling and would follow Clinton to the White House should she win election this fall.”\n
  • Donald Trump jumps on the social justice warrior tranny bathroom bandwagon<\/a>.\n
  • Evidently accused pedophile Terry Bean<\/a> is the one whose organizations are pushing tranny bathroom bills down America’s throats. (Hat tip: Director Blue<\/a>.)\n
  • Trump convention manager Paul Manafort engages in the time-honored traditional rhetorical device know as “lying your ass off<\/a>.”\n
  • Thomas Sowell on campaign lies and dodgy statistics<\/a>.\n
  • “Although our panel\u2019s original estimates had Trump finishing with 1,175 pledged delegates, my revised deterministic projections have him at 1,155<\/a>, and the probabilistic version has him at 1,159.”\n
  • Ted Cruz has done heavy organizing in California<\/a>.\n
  • Man indicted for selling school supplies to Detroit schools he didn’t actually deliver<\/a>…with the connivance of several principles receiving kickbacks. Now, remind me: Which party has controlled Detroit for half a century?\n
  • Venezuela instituting four hours of blackouts a day<\/a>, in addition to the previously mentioned three day weekends<\/a>. That socialist paradise just keeps\n
  • Brazil impeaches their President<\/a>.\n
  • Won’t someone please think of poor, penniless Boeing<\/a>?\n
  • When low-fat dogma trumped science: hamburger study data showed exact opposite of study’s conclusions<\/a>.\n
  • Navy chief starving Marine air corps.<\/a>\n
  • “What Women Really Want Is The Patriarchy<\/a>.”\n
  • “‘White Privilege’ Is a Racial Slur<\/a>.”\n
  • “Walden<\/b> is less a cornerstone work of environmental literature than the original cabin porn<\/a>: a fantasy about rustic life divorced from the reality of living in the woods, and, especially, a fantasy about escaping the entanglements and responsibilities of living among other people.”\n
  • Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano erupts<\/a>. Popocatepetl is less than 50 miles from Mexico City…\n
  • Goldman Sachs pays $5 billion fine<\/a> to “settle claims that it misled mortgage bond investors during the financial crisis.” (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n
  • Pratt & Whitney pushing a B-52 engine upgrade<\/a>.\n
  • The woman who can’t remember her own past.<\/a> (Hat tip: Bill Crider<\/a>.)\n
  • Lileks<\/a>: “Who wouldn’t want to lounge around in a set from a 1970s failed Gene Roddenberry pilot?” (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>.)\n
  • Son, that’s no way to treat steaks.<\/a> (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As today is a made-up celebration called “Earth Day,” be sure to have beef for dinner… Reminder: “Officials at VA\u2019s Phoenix hospital manipulated wait-time data to make it appear they were connecting doctors and veterans seeking appointments much faster than they actually were. This was done so VA managers at the Arizona facility could keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,17,13,194,24,18,2463,12,319],"tags":[1980,2091,96,472,1888,1749,3217,2369,406,2872,2864,1875,1167,1431,779,2718,3140,1039,213,2535,2874,3216,2880,2866,748,3214,2495,2881,98,950,3641,2861,3215,2877,2122,2328],"class_list":["post-26851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-democrats","category-elections","category-military","category-obamacare","category-republicans","category-social-justice-warriors","category-texas","category-unions","tag-2016-election","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-afghanistan","tag-atkins","tag-b-52","tag-benghazi","tag-boeing","tag-brazil","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-detroit","tag-donald-trump","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton-scandals","tag-james-lileks","tag-libya","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-city","tag-military","tag-national-labor-relations-board","tag-obama-scandals","tag-obamacare","tag-oklahoma","tag-popocatepetl","tag-rhode-island","tag-social-justice-warriors","tag-taliban","tag-ted-cruz","tag-terry-bean","tag-texas","tag-tranny-bathrooms","tag-unions","tag-venezuela","tag-veterans-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26851"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29640,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26851\/revisions\/29640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}