{"id":18626,"date":"2010-09-19T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/unblogged-bits-sun-19-sep-10-1730.html"},"modified":"2010-09-19T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T23:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-19-sep-10-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/unblogged-bits-sun-19-sep-10-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 19-Sep-10 1730)"},"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. VVS Double Whammy: Smearing Gay Soldiers and US Allies<\/a> – What a pair of asshats.<\/li>\n
  2. O\u2019Donnell On \u2018Witchcraft\u2019 Comment: \u2018How Many Of You Didn\u2019t Hang Out With Questionable Folks?\u2019<\/a> – Actually, it’s a perfectly legitimate defense. If she’d come out with it right away, it might have even defused much of the mockery. Plus, y’know, if she hadn’t conflated “witchcraft” with “spooky Satanic blood sacrifice” …<\/li>\n
  3. Powell Criticizes Right-Wing\u2019s Attacks Against Obama: \u2018Let\u2019s Attack Him On Policy, Not Nonsense\u2019<\/a> – Which is why the smartest thing that Powell ever did was decline calls for him to run for president on the GOP ticket. And why he’ll never be urged to do so again.<\/li>\n
  4. Pressed On New Poverty Numbers, Miller Won\u2019t Say How He\u2019ll Help 43.6 Million Poor<\/a> – Cheap-labor conservatives: If we don’t pay unemployment, maybe all those unemployed will have an incentive to displace the illegals out in the fields.<\/li>\n
  5. Gingrich Accuses Sebelius Of \u2018Soviet Tyranny,\u2019 Says GOP Congress Should Defund Her Office<\/a> – I didn’t know For-Profit Insurance Companies were the equivalent of The American People. When do I get to raise MY premiums 9% (or much more), Mr Gingrich?<\/li>\n
  6. Meet The Deniers: The Top Climate Races This November<\/a> – SIGH<\/b><\/li>\n
  7. HOWTO choose a typeface<\/a> – Nice.<\/li>\n
  8. Jackie at the crossroads<\/a> – Urban myths are like irrational antibodies … they come up with ways to protect themselves.<\/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 …. VVS Double Whammy: Smearing Gay Soldiers and US Allies – What a pair of asshats. O\u2019Donnell On \u2018Witchcraft\u2019 Comment: \u2018How Many Of You Didn\u2019t Hang Out With Questionable Folks?\u2019 – Actually, it’s a perfectly legitimate defense. If she’d come … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 19-Sep-10 1730)”<\/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":"","_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-18626","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":41910,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/02\/michael-powell-is-a-dolt-profit-motive-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":18626,"position":0},"title":"Michael 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