{"id":22310,"date":"2011-08-22T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/unblogged-bits-mon-22-aug-11-1731-2.html"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:31:11","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-22-aug-11-1731-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/unblogged-bits-mon-22-aug-11-1731-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 22-Aug-11 1731)"},"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. Republican Corporate Chairman On Whether Tax Cuts For The Rich Create Jobs: \u2018That\u2019s So Baloney\u2019 | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Obama administration takes tough stance on banks – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com<\/a> – Unfortunately, it’s a tough stance FOR banks, not AGAINST banks. Disgusting.<\/li>\n
  3. Colorado GOP releases new congressional map | The Denver Post<\/a> – Maybe we should just divide everyone up alphabetically by last name. “I am proud to be the representative of Ma-Po …”<\/li>\n
  4. BBC News – Google begins Amazon river Street View project<\/a> – That is very, very cool.<\/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 …. Republican Corporate Chairman On Whether Tax Cuts For The Rich Create Jobs: \u2018That\u2019s So Baloney\u2019 | ThinkProgress Obama administration takes tough stance on banks – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com – Unfortunately, it’s a tough stance FOR banks, not AGAINST … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 22-Aug-11 1731)”<\/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-22310","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":26238,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/pity-the-poor-banks.html","url_meta":{"origin":22310,"position":0},"title":"Pity the poor banks","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Feb-12 9:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"Frankly, I wish the settlement had been even more stringent, and that we'd seen some criminal charges filed against individuals. But at least it's something.I'm either greatly amused or else disgusted (perhaps both) that the Oklahoma AG didn't sign onto the deal because he felt it was too harsh on\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":33156,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/whats-radical-is-someone-is-standing-up-to-big-banks.html","url_meta":{"origin":22310,"position":1},"title":"What's radical is someone is standing up to big banks","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Apr-13 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Require banks to finance more of their business with shareholder equity, rather than simply borrowing more and more against their deposits and trusting that the government will consider them \"too big to fail\"? Especially bigger banks? \u00a0Yup, that's pretty radical. 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It\u2019s made an enemy of banks,\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":38440,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/10\/if-banks-are-too-big-to-fail.html","url_meta":{"origin":22310,"position":3},"title":"If banks are too big to fail","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Aug-13 10:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem is that banks as presently constituted serve two distinct, and conflicting purposes:1. They serve as safe storage and utilization for liquid assets -- checking and savings deposits (personal and business), which are traditionally leveraged for relatively low-risk loan activity for homes, cars, business expansion, etc. \u00a0That's called retail\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":49628,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/19\/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-a-man-on-a-white-horse.html","url_meta":{"origin":22310,"position":4},"title":""Give Me Liberty or Give Me a Man on a White Horse"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Feb-15 9:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watch out, Vladimir Putin -- the Punditry of the Right have a new love interest ...\"Apparently you love freedom, but wish it were administered by a dictator.\" Wish You Were Him Jordan's King Abdullah takes a tough stance against ISIS, leaving conservatives wishing that President Obama would act more like\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":25997,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/all-the-regulations-in-the-world-dont-mean-a-thing-if-theyre-not-enfor.html","url_meta":{"origin":22310,"position":5},"title":"All the regulations in the world don't mean a thing if they're not enfor…","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-12 9:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"All the regulations in the world don't mean a thing if they're not enforcedSo why are banks that settle fraud cases then getting waivers for privileges that the regulations say they should therefore lose? #ddtbReshared post from +Lucas Wiman\"Wherefore these waivers? 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