{"id":18446,"date":"2010-09-07T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/unblogged-bits-tue-7-sep-10-2331.html"},"modified":"2010-09-07T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:31:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-7-sep-10-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/unblogged-bits-tue-7-sep-10-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue.  7-Sep-10 2331)"},"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\/CDDLaheBL08\/release.php\">Catholic League: For Religious and Civil Rights<\/a> &#8211; Dear Rev. Jones &#8212; when even Bill Donohue thinks you are being immorally provocative, you really might want to give your plans a second thought. Or even a third.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/quhdfU5WGmM\/pawlenty-requests-stimulus-funds-he-criticized\">Pawlenty Requests Stimulus Funds He Criticized<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;For Republicans such as Pawlenty and Stutzman, it\u2019s easy to denounce federal spending to further their political careers and agendas, but they still have no problem with benefiting from the same federal government programs they rail against.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/xVY2Wjf-EWg\/badass_quote_of_the_day_50.php\">Badass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]<\/a> &#8211; See, here is a criticism that I can agree with because it is neither tarring-with-one-brush nor politically-overcorrect.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s a hard-hitting but nuanced analysis that&#8217;s almost impossible to make these days because of the xenophobes on one side and the anti-xenophobic apologists on the other.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/7F-HNltiA4o\/labor-day-irony-the-peopl_b_705127.html\">Richard (RJ) Eskow: Labor Day Irony: The People Who Want to Cut Social Security All Have Great Retirement Plans<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s always easy when it&#8217;s not your own ox being gored.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/uXAQPFFTC30\/\">2 asteroids to pass Earth closer than the moon &#8211; Space.com<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; yikes?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/eu2JyHYmf7U\/sierra-mist-ditching-hfcs-for-good-7up-getting-reformulated.html\">Sierra Mist Ditching HFCS For Good, 7Up Getting Reformulated<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not a lemon-lime soda drinker, sorry.  That said, always glad to see someone dropping HFCS.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/e1js4VzjCSQ\/\">Is LinkedIn Checking Out?<\/a> &#8211; I have a LinkedIn account. About once every couple fo weeks I get an email saying someone wants to link up with me; half the time I recognize the name. I go there about once a month, just to answer the requests.  In short &#8212; not very useful to me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/X8viMG0e48A\/\">Suit aims to remove Tancredo from ballot | The Spot<\/a> &#8211; Tom Tancredo: Illegal Inhabitant of the ACP.  Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/VwyGT5cAo8o\/beck_admits_lying_about_washin.php\">Beck Admits Lying About Washington Document : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; What a maroon.<\/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;. Catholic League: For Religious and Civil Rights &#8211; Dear Rev. Jones &#8212; when even Bill Donohue thinks you are being immorally provocative, you really might want to give your plans a second thought. Or even a third. Pawlenty Requests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/unblogged-bits-tue-7-sep-10-2331.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Tue.  7-Sep-10 2331)&#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-18446","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":21559,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/unblogged-bits-wed-13-jul-11-1731.html","url_meta":{"origin":18446,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 13-Jul-11 1731)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Jul-11 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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