{"id":15152,"date":"2009-07-08T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-08-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-07-08T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T00:00:28","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-08-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-08-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 08 July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/08\/cornyn-travel-costs\/\">First-Class Cornyn Offers Weak Defense Of His Exorbitant Travel Costs: Texas Is A Big State: Ben Armbruster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/CV6CjIW7BtI\/military-commissions-gove_b_228109.html\">Andy Worthington: Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems: Andy Worthington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/republican-party\/key-reason-palin-gave-for-quitting-appears-to-be-false\/\">Key Reason Palin Gave For Quitting May Be False: Greg Sargent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/vXNUSZ_oHtU\/sean-hannity-caught-selec_n_228060.html\">Sean Hannity Caught Selectively Editing Obama Speeches, Again (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/08\/sessions-letter\/\">25 Latino groups hit Sessions for racial attacks.: Ian M.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/0b0Vszn_MN4\/dont-enshrine-discriminat_b_227983.html\">Deepak Bhargava: Don&#8217;t Enshrine Discrimination in Health Care Reform: Deepak Bhargava<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/08\/steve-king-slavery-capitol\/\">Rep. Steve King only one to vote against recognizing slave labor\u2019s  construction of U.S. Capitol.<\/a> &#8211; Wow. What an asshole.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=12236\">Daria: &#8216;Coming to DVD&#8217;? Yes: TVShowsOnDVD Users&#8217; 3rd Most-Wanted Unreleased  Series!<\/a> &#8211; Excellent!  I never watched this show extensively when it was on, but always enjoyed it when I did.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/HIS0LT6wqHw\/\">Dave Carroll&#8217;s &#8220;United Breaks Guitars&#8221; song &#8230; [Follow Ups]<\/a> &#8211; Nice!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/07\/08\/dont-like-our-church-then-you-cant-see-your-kids\/\">Don\u2019t Like Our Church? Then You Can\u2019t See Your Kids<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s pretty awful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/HoUjHepOPNM\/\">The Worst Reviewed Highest Grossing Movie Of All-Time?: orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/4fMCWfpa4H0\/in-reversal-senate-dem-leadership-pushes-for-unity-against-filibuster.php\">In Reversal, Senate Dem Leadership Pushes For Unity Against Filibuster: Brian Beutler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/07\/02\/crimesider\/entry5129869.shtml?tag=pop\">Oops: Teacher Accidentally Gave Self-Made Sex Tape to 5th Graders &#8211; Crimesider &#8211; CBS News<\/a> &#8211; Heh. Yeah, sometimes it&#8217;s tough keeping track of files in your video editor. Though it&#8217;s interesting that the fallout from this has been so light.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0709\/24668.html\">Rove deposed in U.S. attorney probe &#8211; John Bresnahan and Josh Gerstein &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a> &#8211; Man, I&#8217;d love to have Karl Rove in for a deposition &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mightyredpen.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/16\/making-headlines\/\">Making headlines \u00ab Mighty Red Pen<\/a> &#8211; As someone who works in IT, and for a company that has numerous government agencies, often related to various branches of science and engineering, I can guarantee you that the number of duplicated acronyms out there is staggering.  Though rarely quite this funny.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/07\/08\/do-you-know-what-time-it-is\/\">Do You Know What Time It Is?<\/a> &#8211; Good article, but also interesting time stuff related to today&#8217;s date.  Also occurring today: 07:08:09 (already here) and 10:11:12.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. First-Class Cornyn Offers Weak Defense Of His Exorbitant Travel Costs: Texas Is A Big State: Ben Armbruster Andy Worthington: Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems: Andy Worthington Key Reason Palin Gave For Quitting May Be False: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-08-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 08 July 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_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15152","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":38741,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/go-see-cal.html","url_meta":{"origin":15152,"position":0},"title":"Go see Cal!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Sep-13 6:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry to hear about Cal Worthington's passing. 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