{"id":2722,"date":"2008-07-06T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/06\/uncertain-principles-certain-r\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T10:05:28","slug":"uncertain-principles-certain-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/06\/uncertain-principles-certain-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertain Principles, Certain Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

From yesterday’s snail mail:<\/p>\n

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On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence about the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget. We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So, there you go. I’m appreciated and my suggestions are welcomed. Of course, it took me a while to figure out when I might’ve contributed anything to the White House budget process…<\/p>\n

I think this was a response to the form letter I sent as part of the annual DAMOP letter-writing campaign. Since that was aimed at obtaining some supplemental science funding<\/a>, I suppose you can say that it got results. Of course, it also gives the next paragraph of the form letter an ironic tinge:<\/p>\n

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President Bush is committed to encouraging economic progress, keeping America safe, and upholding our deepest values of faith and family. The President’s Budget demonstrates his dedication to funding our Nation’s key priorities without raising taxes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(That last might explain why he’s 0-for-3 on the first sentence…)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I hadn’t previously commented on the supplemental funding bill, so this at least provided a good excuse to say “Hooray, science funding.”<\/p>\n

Hooray, (minimally adequate) science funding. Better late than never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From yesterday’s snail mail: On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence about the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget. We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions. So, there you go. I’m appreciated and my suggestions are welcomed. Of course, it took me a while to figure out when I might’ve contributed… Continue reading Uncertain Principles, Certain Results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}