Full disclosure guy, I am.<\/p>\n
First, for easier viewing of anybody who’s interested in it, objectively or otherwise, I’ve re-categorized the posts here about my funding from the “Uncategorized<\/a>” label to the “My Funding<\/a>” label. Second, unlike the prior way of sending me my strings-free gift grants twice a year, the Heartland Institute has decided, for reasons they haven’t told me, to give me a grant this year all at once, for $12,000. It landed in my bank account yesterday. In the context of the way Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi characterized thousand dollar bonus gift amounts from employers to workers as “crumbs<\/a>,” I will be paying my room & board with the moral equivalent of twelve such crumbs this year. The big difference here is that I absolutely, positively do not work for Heartland. I don’t work for anybody, I’m unemployed.<\/p>\n The assortment of critics who have glommed onto my work claim otherwise, in predictable fashion<\/a>, while also predictably sidestepping challenges<\/a> to put their money<\/em> where their mouth is<\/a> on such accusations<\/a>. It appears, for people like that, an assertion is true if it sounds like it is true, not because it is actually proven to be true<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wish me luck on other fundraising. I could use a new set of tires on my car and my current computer is now so hopelessly out of date that its web browser cannot be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Full disclosure guy, I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}