{"id":16490,"date":"2010-01-02T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-02-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-01-02T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T00:00:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-02-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-02-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 02 January 2010"},"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\/2010\/01\/02\/army-history-afghanistan\/\">Official Army History: Bush Administration Neglected Afghan War, Diverted Resources to Iraq: Alex Seitz-Wald<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/QSWlgkiee-c\/\">If Only We Were A Mature Nation; But We\u2019re Not: Alan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/LaHP7qDnbNo\/limbaugh-lauds-socialist_b_409378.html\">Paul Abrams: Limbaugh Lauds (Socialist) Medical Care in Hawaii: Paul Abrams<\/a><\/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;. Official Army History: Bush Administration Neglected Afghan War, Diverted Resources to Iraq: Alex Seitz-Wald If Only We Were A Mature Nation; But We\u2019re Not: Alan Paul Abrams: Limbaugh Lauds (Socialist) Medical Care in Hawaii: Paul Abrams<\/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":"","_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-16490","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":32316,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/jj-abrams-to-be-the-star-wars-mastermind.html","url_meta":{"origin":16490,"position":0},"title":"JJ Abrams to be the &quot;Star Wars&quot; mastermind?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jan-13 5:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not looking for a reboot of the franchise (a la Star Trek) ... but I think Abrams could be a good overseer for Disney's Star Wars universe. 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