{"id":20299,"date":"2011-02-23T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-wed-23-feb-11-1030.html"},"modified":"2011-02-23T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:30:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-23-feb-11-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-wed-23-feb-11-1030.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 23-Feb-11 1030)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Workers are workers, public or private<\/a> – “We live in a country where corporations can anonymously funnel billions of dollars to affect the outcome of elections that decide who their regulators are and who oversees them. But according to Brooks, we’re supposed to see public worker unions, one of the few remaining institutions standing between American democracy and runaway oligarchy, as a singularly sinister influence on the body politic.”<\/li>\n
  2. Third Federal Judge Upholds Affordable Care Act: Ian Millhiser<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Adorable Kittens Comment on Recent Headlines<\/a> – Adorable kittens are adorable. Plus, correct.<\/li>\n
  4. The problem in a nutshell.<\/a> – Yeah, the insane thing in this whole current frenzy is that the decisions are all about “do we cut vital government services by a lot or a little.” There are two sides to the deficit equation, and the GOP (abetted by the Dems) are only looking at the outgo, not the income. In fact, the GOP is worsening the problem by ratcheting the income downward.<\/li>\n
  5. R.I.P. Nicholas Courtney, Doctor Who’s Trustiest Companion<\/a> – Brigadier, I salute you.<\/li>\n
  6. Harry Reid Wants To Outlaw Brothels<\/a> – Harry Reid doesn’t have enough to do these days as Senate Majority Leader, he’s lecturing the STATE legislature (of which he is not a part) on how to run things in their STATE? Yeesh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Workers are workers, public or private – “We live in a country where corporations can anonymously funnel billions of dollars to affect the outcome of elections that decide who their regulators are and who oversees them. But according to … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 23-Feb-11 1030)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135389,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/sand-kittens.html","url_meta":{"origin":20299,"position":0},"title":"Sand Kittens!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Nov-17 8:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"In case your Monday isn't going well, here are some cute Sand Cat kittens to help you smile. 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