{"id":18308,"date":"2010-08-28T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/unblogged-bits-sat-28-aug-10-2000.html"},"modified":"2010-08-28T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T20:00:48","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-28-aug-10-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/unblogged-bits-sat-28-aug-10-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 28-Aug-10 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Harry Shearer: NPR — the Initials Stand for Nothing<\/a> – That’s … unfortunate.<\/li>\n
  2. SPEECH Act now a law: big win for libel reform!<\/a> – “Sometimes, our government gets it right.”<\/li>\n
  3. GOP Funding Octopus – Many tentacles, same groups: karoli<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Kirk Scare Farmers Into Believing They\u2019ll Lose Their Farm Because Of A Tax Almost No Farmers Pay<\/a> – Because why let the facts get in the way of a tired campaign cliche?<\/li>\n
  5. themes througout science-fiction and fantasy [infographic]<\/a> – An interesting (but highly selective) listing which doesn’t seem to prove much. One obvious gap — Xena is listed, but Hercules is not?<\/li>\n
  6. Preacher to Burn Korans on 9\/11, No Matter Who Tells Him Not To (VIDEO)<\/a> – “We want to send a very clear message to Muslims that if they are in America, they are free here to worship, but they must honor and respect our constitution.” And you will do that by … burning Korans? I don’t think that’s your real reason here, dude.<\/li>\n
  7. Ctrl-V, Ctrl-X, Ctrl -Z<\/a> – Clever, though I honestly got hooked on the CTRL-INSERT\/SHIFT-DELETE\/SHIFT-INSERT combo early on, and have never weaned off of it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Harry Shearer: NPR — the Initials Stand for Nothing – That’s … unfortunate. SPEECH Act now a law: big win for libel reform! – “Sometimes, our government gets it right.” GOP Funding Octopus – Many tentacles, same groups: karoli … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 28-Aug-10 2000)”<\/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-18308","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":137442,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/protecting-american-farmers-who-are-actually-chinese.html","url_meta":{"origin":18308,"position":0},"title":"Protecting American Farmers (who are actually Chinese)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Nov-18 6:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because the tariff war between the US and China is hurting American farmers, Trump has set up a special farm bailout program to make up for the losses his actions have cause.In a nicely recursive fashion, that will in turn help some American farms that are own by Chinese agricultural\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21110,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/farmers-market-monsummano-terme.html","url_meta":{"origin":18308,"position":1},"title":"Farmers Market, Monsummano Terme","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-May-11 4:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Stan ponders the olives.","rel":"","context":"In "Travel - Italy 2011"","block_context":{"text":"Travel - Italy 2011","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel\/travel-italy-2011"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138834,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/illegal-immigrants-are-terrible-except-when-i-er-the-farmers-need-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":18308,"position":2},"title":"Illegal immigrants are terrible! 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