{"id":22745,"date":"2011-09-22T23:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/unblogged-bits-thu-22-sep-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-09-22T23:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T05:30:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-22-sep-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/unblogged-bits-thu-22-sep-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 22-Sep-11 2330)"},"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. Bachmann Proposes to Eliminate All Taxes<\/a> – Wow. Incoherent, much? So we’re going to eliminate the income tax, maybe the sales tax … perhaps we’ll just go to excise fees, like in the pre-income tax era. Of course, there’s that whole military to fund that you’re so fond of, Michelle … that’s a lot of fees to support …<\/li>\n
  2. GOP Debate Crowd Boos Gay Soldier Serving in Iraq: VIDEO<\/a> – “Any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.” So … we’re going to insist on vows of chastity amongst our armed forces. Um, good luck with that, Rick.<\/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 …. Bachmann Proposes to Eliminate All Taxes – Wow. Incoherent, much? So we’re going to eliminate the income tax, maybe the sales tax … perhaps we’ll just go to excise fees, like in the pre-income tax era. Of course, there’s … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 22-Sep-11 2330)”<\/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-22745","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":25504,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/mitt-thinks-362k-in-speaking-fees-is-not-very-much.html","url_meta":{"origin":22745,"position":0},"title":"Mitt thinks $362K in speaking fees is "not very much"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jan-12 12:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Must be nice to live in Mitt's world and pay such a low tax rate. #ddtb Embedded Link Romney Admits His Tax Rate Is About 15 Percent, Lower Than Many Middle Class Families Citizens for Tax Justice a few months ago estimated that Mitt Romney, due to most of his\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":18890,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/colorado-ballot-propositions-2010-the-ugly-three.html","url_meta":{"origin":22745,"position":1},"title":"Colorado Ballot Propositions 2010: “The Ugly Three”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Oct-10 9:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The State of Colorado has nine ballot measures this coming election. 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