{"id":236,"date":"2009-05-15T23:18:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T06:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-12-21T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T06:23:31","slug":"too-many-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/too-many-skeptics\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Government Executive dot com and it looks like there are more skeptics in Guam&#8217;s infrastructure to house the Marines from Japan.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/story_page.cfm?articleid=42680&amp;dcn=todaysnews\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. 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