{"id":14528,"date":"2009-04-13T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-13-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-04-13T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:00:22","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-13-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-13-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 13 April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/13\/kristol-pirates-spending\/\">Kristol Uses Pirate Crisis To Argue For More Defense Spending: Ali Frick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/7AzoRyZbNKo\/republicans-government-defense-spending-responsible-for-thousands-of-jobs.php\">Republicans: Government (Defense) Spending Responsible For Thousands Of Jobs: Brian Beutler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/right-wingers-who-hit-president-pant\">Right-wingers who hit &#8216;President Pantywaist&#8217; have egg on their faces after U.S. forces killed pirates: David Neiwert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/oM5gKZuhl2Q\/us-pot-legalization-shoul_n_186210.html\">U.S. Pot Legalization Should Be Discussed: Mexican Ambassador: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/9nSGzK6ZDfU\/the-corporate-lobbyists-b_b_186367.html\">Jane Hamsher: The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties: Jane Hamsher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/13\/varney-promote-tea-parties\/\">Fox host: \u2018It\u2019s now my great duty to promote the tea parties. Here we go!\u2019: Matt Corley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/PQqJ0xCfXRE\/why-the-democrats-are-los_b_186047.html\">Drew Westen: Why the Democrats Are Losing Ground As Obama Is Gaining It: Drew Westen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/04\/the-regulatory-origins-of-the-internet.html\">The Regulatory Origins of the Internet: publius<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230; Kristol Uses Pirate Crisis To Argue For More Defense Spending: Ali Frick Republicans: Government (Defense) Spending Responsible For Thousands Of Jobs: Brian Beutler Right-wingers who hit &#8216;President Pantywaist&#8217; have egg on their faces after U.S. forces killed pirates: David Neiwert U.S. Pot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-13-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 13 April 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-14528","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":131006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/we-must-cut-spending-except-on-military-stuff-built-in-my-district.html","url_meta":{"origin":14528,"position":0},"title":"We must cut spending! Except on military stuff built in my district!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Jul-16 12:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"When naval officers who are vested in a new program combine with defense contractors who are vested in their bottom line and congresscritters who are vested in campaign donations and bringing home the pork, the Pentagon and the Secretary of Defense are apparently helpless to stop them.'The extra ship, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41947,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/throwing-good-money-after-bad-missile-defense-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":14528,"position":1},"title":"Throwing good money after bad (Missile Defense Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-May-14 11:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"To my mind, the only question about these non-functional anti-missile systems is why they are still being funded (not just for research, but deployment).1. Is it because they are manufactured in the districts of powerful congresscritters who want the DoD dollars to flow to their constituents?2. 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