{"id":13142,"date":"2008-07-10T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/10\/potpourri-for-a-hot-thursday-afternoon.html"},"modified":"2008-07-10T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T20:26:16","slug":"potpourri_for_a_hot_thurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/potpourri_for_a_hot_thurs.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for a hot Thursday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Write In Bush<\/a> – Do we encourage this so that it sucks up McCain votes? Or discourage it so that Bush isn’t tempted to simply ignore the 22nd Amendment (in the name of “national security” and “executive privilege,” of course)?<\/li>\n
  2. New Friends Bring New Troubles for McCain<\/a> – A problem all candidates have — there are supporters who have unsavory records and positions of their own. How a candidate deals with them (Left or Right) is revealing of how they will deal with domestic and (especially) international affairs. Unless, of course, they actually agree with the nutcases.<\/li>\n
  3. American Civil Liberties Union : Senate Passes Unconstitutional…<\/a> – It’s going to be hilarious watching the Right spin 180 degrees on what sort of powers the president should wield once there’s a Democrat in the White House.<\/li>\n
  4. Staver Lies About Court Case<\/a> – But … but … Bearing False Witness is against the Ten Commandments, isn’t it?<\/li>\n
  5. Con-artists join the war on photographers<\/a> – Because when we fear authority, it’s easy to get fooled by people who feign it.<\/li>\n
  6. Bozo Dead<\/a> – I was never a big Bozo fan, but he was a cultural icon.<\/li>\n
  7. Less Pipe, More Shading for CNET<\/a> – I go to CNET on a fairly regular basis. While their old logo could probably have used with a revision, the new one basically looks like something someone whipped up in a graphics program in, oh, 5 minutes or so.<\/li>\n
  8. Moon has water<\/a> – First Mars, then Mercury, now the Moon … it’s kind of getting passe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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