{"id":20682,"date":"2011-04-07T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/unblogged-bits-thu-7-apr-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:30:54","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-7-apr-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/unblogged-bits-thu-7-apr-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 7-Apr-11 1130)"},"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. Stiglitz: We have a government ‘Of the 1%, by the 1%, and for the 1%’<\/a> – “Given the power of the top 1 percent, this is the way you would expect the system to work.” Ugh.<\/li>\n
  2. Republicans continue assault on consumer protection<\/a> – I’ve been trying to figure out when it was that a majority in a single house of Congress suddenly gave a party (and their special interests) control over the government.<\/li>\n
  3. Estimated 9 million Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, study finds | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times<\/a> – But … but … THEY’RE SCARY AND THEY’RE OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A HALF-PERCENTAGE-POINT AT A TIME!<\/li>\n
  4. Fox News to end Glenn Beck’s show – latimes.com<\/a> – Couldn’t happen to a nicer lunatic.<\/li>\n
  5. Government shutdown: Clean air, abortion divisions may cause shutdown – latimes.com<\/a> – So it’s not really about the budget (in which case getting the numbers to meet up would be sufficient), but about getting some healthy dollops of conservative policy-making shoehorned through. And for that we may end up with a government shutdown? Nice abuse of the system, GOP.<\/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 …. Stiglitz: We have a government ‘Of the 1%, by the 1%, and for the 1%’ – “Given the power of the top 1 percent, this is the way you would expect the system to work.” Ugh. Republicans continue assault … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 7-Apr-11 1130)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-20682","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":23290,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/are-privatized-government-functions-immune-from-government-checks.html","url_meta":{"origin":20682,"position":0},"title":"Are privatized government functions immune from government checks?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-11 2:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"You'd think that would be a nonsensical question, that basic constitutional guarantees apply whether the other party is the government or a corporation serving in lieu of. 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