{"id":17901,"date":"2010-07-18T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/unblogged-bits-sun-18-jul-10-2000.html"},"modified":"2010-07-18T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T00:00:56","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-18-jul-10-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/unblogged-bits-sun-18-jul-10-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 18-Jul-10 2000)"},"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\/fWow-GOZo7c\/024779.php\">A likely scenario in 2011<\/a> &#8211; If there&#8217;s a Republican majority in the House, the danger is not so much in policy but in practice.  They still won&#8217;t be able to set the former, but they can much more effectively hamstring government action on pretty much anything.  Is that really what anyone needs?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/zAe_FWayLmY\/024777.php\">Statistic of the Day<\/a> &#8211; Unfortunately, I have little doubt that the short memories of the electorate, supported by a conservative media machine that wants everyone to think of Obama as &#8220;aloof&#8221; and &#8220;not in touch with the common man&#8221; will cause this charge to stick, at least a little.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/wOIamy_pVLw\/024776.php\">When extremists find one of their own too extreme: Steve Benen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/AhQ7SQUAPTY\/\">Sessions And Cornyn Refuse To Detail GOP Agenda, Offer Zero \u2018Painful  Choices\u2019 To Cut Spending<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;But wait a minute, conservatives need a Democratic president\u2019s debt commission to figure out what it is they need to cut?&#8221;  No, they need it to cover their unwillingness to discuss what they would cut before they get themselves elected.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/x8mXyOAvOv8\/la-me-mosque-20100718,0,2447625.story\">Planned Temecula Valley mosque draws opposition &#8211; latimes.com<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s astonishing.  For the most part the concerns raised aren&#8217;t even of the assertive sort &#8212; &#8220;They&#8217;re evil and out to eat our children!&#8221; &#8212; but more of the paranioia sort &#8212; &#8220;Well, they SAY they&#8217;re not evil, but what if they really are and what if they do then eat our children?!&#8221;  Stupid.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ov5vdqFIncI\/time-lapse-animated-gif-of-day-teeth.html\">Time-lapse animated gif of the day: teeth correction in action<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s pretty darned cool.<\/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;. A likely scenario in 2011 &#8211; If there&#8217;s a Republican majority in the House, the danger is not so much in policy but in practice. They still won&#8217;t be able to set the former, but they can much more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/unblogged-bits-sun-18-jul-10-2000.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun. 18-Jul-10 2000)&#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-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}