{"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":"<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\/mHrWlws9GlM\/vvs-double-whammy-smearing-gay-soldiers-and-us-allies\">VVS Double Whammy: Smearing Gay Soldiers and US Allies<\/a> &#8211; What a pair of asshats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/1yfuhN1_zTo\/\">O\u2019Donnell On \u2018Witchcraft\u2019 Comment: \u2018How Many Of You Didn\u2019t Hang Out With  Questionable Folks?\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Actually, it&#8217;s a perfectly legitimate defense. If she&#8217;d come out with it right away, it might have even defused much of the mockery. Plus, y&#8217;know, if she hadn&#8217;t conflated &#8220;witchcraft&#8221; with &#8220;spooky Satanic blood sacrifice&#8221; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/wJ0ocfGbC2A\/\">Powell Criticizes Right-Wing\u2019s Attacks Against Obama: \u2018Let\u2019s Attack Him On  Policy, Not Nonsense\u2019<\/a> &#8211; 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&#8217;ll never be urged to do so again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/GYLO5CL8d5Q\/\">Pressed On New Poverty Numbers, Miller Won\u2019t Say How He\u2019ll Help 43.6 Million  Poor<\/a> &#8211; Cheap-labor conservatives: If we don&#8217;t pay unemployment, maybe all those unemployed will have an incentive to displace the illegals out in the fields.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/aEM0R7kAJhY\/\">Gingrich Accuses Sebelius Of \u2018Soviet Tyranny,\u2019 Says GOP Congress Should  Defund Her Office<\/a> &#8211; I didn&#8217;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<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/kjwu7WhOe34\/\">Meet The Deniers: The Top Climate Races This November<\/a> &#8211; <b>SIGH<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/hT2O8bMO9tE\/howto-choose-a-typef.html\">HOWTO choose a typeface<\/a> &#8211; Nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/A3Ap75Vcwc4\/jackie-at-the-crossroads.html\">Jackie at the crossroads<\/a> &#8211; Urban myths are like irrational antibodies &#8230; they come up with ways to protect themselves.<\/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;. VVS Double Whammy: Smearing Gay Soldiers and US Allies &#8211; What a pair of asshats. O\u2019Donnell On \u2018Witchcraft\u2019 Comment: \u2018How Many Of You Didn\u2019t Hang Out With Questionable Folks?\u2019 &#8211; Actually, it&#8217;s a perfectly legitimate defense. If she&#8217;d come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/unblogged-bits-sun-19-sep-10-1730.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun. 19-Sep-10 1730)&#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-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":1471,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/31\/welcome_to_the-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":18626,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to the 21st Century","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Dec-01 4:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"More Harry Potter book burning. 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