{"id":12220,"date":"2008-06-20T23:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/06\/20\/potpourri-on-a-friday-night.html"},"modified":"2008-06-20T23:38:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T06:38:57","slug":"potpourri_on_a_friday_nig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/potpourri_on_a_friday_nig.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on a Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Google Reader shared items &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"David Donnelly: Bad News for McCain: Government Re-opens Bidding on Boeing-Airbus Controversy\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=364201d788c9e48d62cf0d93445a0ae6\">David Donnelly: Bad News for McCain: Government Re-opens&#8230;<\/a><small>&nbsp;from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/raw_feed_index.rdf\">The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com<\/a> <br \/> <\/small>Evidently there are a lot of Airbus\/Northrup lobbyists in the McCain camp, providing him both with advice and funding. Alas, they&#8217;re not pleased by the GAO report indicating the Air Force decision for Airbus\/Northrup to win the multi-billion dollar air tanker contract was seriously flawed and needs to be revisited.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Eric Roberson: America Is Stronger When America Sticks to Its Principles!\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=e698cd1a8ae307f630edd70c5d783c75\">Eric Roberson: America Is Stronger When America Sticks&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/raw_feed_index.rdf\">The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com<\/a> <br \/> <\/small>Principles make us stronger, not weaker? We&#8217;re better when we do what&#8217;s right than what&#8217;s immediately expedient? Gosh, weren&#8217;t those once <em>conservative <\/em>values?<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"GOP Convention Concerns Include Pigeon Dung, Homeless\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=aa5369a6a1be507b3be12cad769bdd80\">GOP Convention Concerns Include Pigeon Dung, Homeless<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/raw_feed_index.rdf\">The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com<\/a> <br \/> <\/small>Interestingly, the GOP has no objections to contraception &#8230; for pigeons.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"School reports child as sexually abused based on the claim of a psychic.\" href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/school_reports_child_as_sexually_abused_based_on_the_claim_of_a_psychic\/\">School reports child as sexually abused based on the&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/index\/\">Stupid Evil Bastard<\/a><\/small> <br \/> A child protective services file was opened because a teacher&#8217;s aid &#8220;psychic&#8221; friend had a vision that a boy was being abused. Yeah, I think that&#8217;s how the Salem CPS folks worked, too.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Gay brains mirror differences found in brains of the opposite sex.\" href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/gay_brains_mirror_differences_found_in_brains_of_the_opposite_sex\/\">Gay brains mirror differences found in brains of the&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/index\/\">Stupid Evil Bastard<\/a><\/small> <br \/> I&#8217;ve never understood the need to &#8220;defend&#8221; homosexuality based on its genetic or congenital origins, but for those who do, this study seems to confirm those origins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Google Reader shared items &#8230; David Donnelly: Bad News for McCain: Government Re-opens&#8230;&nbsp;from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Evidently there are a lot of Airbus\/Northrup lobbyists in the McCain&#8230;<\/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":[54,17,25,16,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-homeland-security","category-gay-stuff","category-potpourri","category-science","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/potpourri_for_a_thursday.html","url_meta":{"origin":12220,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for a Thursday morning","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jun-08 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nibbles and bits from\u00a0my Google Reader Shared Items. 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