{"id":21148,"date":"2011-06-06T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T23:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-mon-6-jun-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-06-06T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T23:30:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-6-jun-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-mon-6-jun-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 6-Jun-11 1730)"},"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. GOP Brings the War on Unions to the Federal Government | People For the American Way Blog<\/a> – “Despite the fact that official time costs only $130 million per year — significantly less expensive than having outsiders handle arbitration and other issues that would arise without official time — and has survived and been deemed useful through three Republican administrations, the GOP is now considering cutting it due to ‘budgetary restraints.'” References, of course, to anything that previous GOP presidential administrations or congressional majorities have supported are, of course, meaningless, given the “Hey, let’s see what zany thing we can pass into law on behalf of our contributors today!” lurch to the right that the GOP has taken in the last couple of years.<\/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 …. GOP Brings the War on Unions to the Federal Government | People For the American Way Blog – “Despite the fact that official time costs only $130 million per year — significantly less expensive than having outsiders handle arbitration … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 6-Jun-11 1730)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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-21148","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":30151,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/08\/a-tale-of-two-administrations-and-employment.html","url_meta":{"origin":21148,"position":0},"title":"A Tale of Two Administrations (and employment)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Sep-12 1:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing new in these graphs, but worth noting: \u00a0the first four years of Obama's presidency have been substantially better for private job growth than the first four of the Bush administration. \u00a0The Bush administration, on the other hand, saw much great increase in public job growth in its first four\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42421,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/texas-gop-zany.html","url_meta":{"origin":21148,"position":1},"title":"Texas + GOP = Zany","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Jun-14 11:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Waiting for them to also recommend dunking for curing witchcraft and human sacrifice for alleviating drought.Reshared post from +The Wire\"Cure the gays\" could soon be official state party policy. http:\/\/thewi.re\/1xiguUL\ufeff The Texas GOP Advances Its 'Cure the Gays' Platform The Texas Republican Party moved one step closer to adding an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11480,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/another_day_another_rat_j.html","url_meta":{"origin":21148,"position":2},"title":"Another day, another rat jumping","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Aug-07 11:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Less than a week after Karl Rove jumped ship from the Bush Administration, Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, is bailing as well.\u00a0 To his credit, though, he's not...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132601,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/for-the-criminal-record.html","url_meta":{"origin":21148,"position":3},"title":"For the (Criminal) Record","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-17 4:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Executive Branch Criminal Activities by Presidential Administration. 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