{"id":22138,"date":"2011-08-13T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T11:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/unblogged-bits-sat-13-aug-11-0530.html"},"modified":"2011-08-13T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T11:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-13-aug-11-0530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/unblogged-bits-sat-13-aug-11-0530.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 13-Aug-11 0530)"},"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. How to Lose Allies and Alienate People – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Being a dick has consequences.<\/li>\n
  2. Romney defends \u2018corporations are people\u2019 remark from Political Intelligence<\/a> – No, Mitt — corporations are a legal fiction, a mechanism to diffuse personal financial responsibility from the owners to some vague business entity. They are not people. They are controlled by, and offer their profits to, people. But that’s not the same thing. I am not anti-business — but I try not to confuse businesses with actual human beings.<\/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 …. How to Lose Allies and Alienate People – NYTimes.com – Being a dick has consequences. Romney defends \u2018corporations are people\u2019 remark from Political Intelligence – No, Mitt — corporations are a legal fiction, a mechanism to diffuse personal financial … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 13-Aug-11 0530)”<\/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":"","_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-22138","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":32626,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/corporations-are-voters-my-friend.html","url_meta":{"origin":22138,"position":0},"title":"Corporations are voters, my friend","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Feb-13 10:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, they vote with their lobbying money and their campaign contributions. \u00a0But along the line of the personhood of corporations, a Montana Repulican state legislator floated a bill that would give local corporations actual votes in municipal elections.And, yeah, it was immediately tabled, and everyone has a good laugh. 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And it's not just happening in banana republics, either.This has been one of the more interesting side criticisms of the various trade\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":26011,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/pity-our-poor-oppressed-marxist-persecuted-corporations.html","url_meta":{"origin":22138,"position":4},"title":"Pity our poor, oppressed, Marxist-persecuted corporations","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-12 6:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So ...1. Corporate tax receipts as a share of profits are at their lowest level in at least 40 years.2. Corporate profits are at a 60 year high.3. Real wages are falling.So, tell me again about how ...a. Obama is oppressing US corporations.b. 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