{"id":3113,"date":"2006-05-24T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:02:38","slug":"even-an-unset-vcr-is-right-twice-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/even-an-unset-vcr-is-right-twice-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Even An Unset VCR Is Right Twice a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Illinois, Rod Blagojevich wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/illinoisstatenews\/story\/77771FB746C1E3C286257177005A6870?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">privatize the lottery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday proposed selling or leasing the state lottery to raise $10 billion as part of a plan to reform Illinois schools.<\/p>\n<p>His proposal includes $1.5 billion for school construction, performance pay for teachers and the consolidation of school districts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a libertarian, I stand in favor of all fornicating, liquoring, and gambling.  As a matter of fact, I would do Rod one better: instead of offering a government-sponsored monopoly on number-running, why not let everyone do it?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I guess getting the government to give up one of the things it&#8217;s seized from the syndicates is a start toward a libertarian paradise.<\/p>\n<p>But that it comes from Illinois, and Blagojevich, irkles me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Illinois, Rod Blagojevich wants to privatize the lottery: Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday proposed selling or leasing the state lottery to raise $10 billion as part of a plan to reform Illinois schools. His proposal includes $1.5 billion for school construction, performance pay for teachers and the consolidation of school districts. As a libertarian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18757,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/18757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}