{"id":17818,"date":"2010-07-08T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-thu-8-jul-10-1400.html"},"modified":"2010-07-08T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:00:50","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-8-jul-10-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-thu-8-jul-10-1400.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu.  8-Jul-10 1400)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Bq67Rq8tFkc\/ci_15465877\">Rocky Mountain National Park closes Trail Ridge Road for winter conditions<\/a> &#8211; HA!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/r_NSy_c4Dd8\/rush-obama-created-recession-as-payback-for-racism\">Rush: Obama Created Recession As &#8216;Payback&#8217; For Racism<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/iwzBEUxGjMQ\/americas-jobless-rec.html\">America&#8217;s &#8220;jobless recovery&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;If the thing you use to measure the health of your economy has gone up, but no one has a job, then surely you are measuring the wrong thing to gauge the health of your nation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/sHNqbMWHhZ4\/security-theater-tee.html\">Security theater tees<\/a> &#8211; Funny.  But I wouldn&#8217;t wear one to the airport.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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;. Rocky Mountain National Park closes Trail Ridge Road for winter conditions &#8211; HA! Rush: Obama Created Recession As &#8216;Payback&#8217; For Racism &#8211; Crikey. 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