{"id":18672,"date":"2010-09-21T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/unblogged-bits-tue-21-sep-10-2330.html"},"modified":"2010-09-21T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-21-sep-10-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/unblogged-bits-tue-21-sep-10-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 21-Sep-10 2330)"},"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\/AylUnlzLjME\/\">Poll: One out of Five Americans Do Not Believe Obama Exists \u00ab Borowitz Report<\/a> &#8211; It would be funny, if I didn&#8217;t think it was too close to being real.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/U1E3BDbGtg0\/literally\">What it means when you say &#8220;literally&#8221; &#8211; The Oatmeal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ED3-U4UnYcI\/201009210065\">Beck would call Dr. King a &#8220;racist&#8221; before amending it to &#8220;anti-colonial&#8221; | Media Matters for America<\/a> &#8211; Wait &#8230; you&#8217;re actually expecting Glenn Beck to be &#8230; intellectually consistent?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/mBA-sDvxLgg\/\">Tea Party Candidate Ken Buck Called For Privatizing Veterans\u2019 Health Care<\/a> &#8211; Because, of course, running the hospitals for profit will mean better care for vets.  Um &#8230; why?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/rIsWRL3XNN8\/\">Lisa Murkowski Would Like to Buy a Vowel, Please.<\/a> &#8211; (Facepalm)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/szMODrhitnQ\/mushy-libertarianism-vs-religious.html\">Mushy libertarianism vs the religious impulse.: CLS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/1AF4keWC_Y4\/\">Swift Boat Merchant Jerome Corsi Calls On President Obama To Renounce  Lucifer (Really)<\/a> &#8211; Jeez.  Next up: &#8220;Mr. President, is it true that you&#8217;ve stopped beating your wife?&#8221;<\/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;. Poll: One out of Five Americans Do Not Believe Obama Exists \u00ab Borowitz Report &#8211; It would be funny, if I didn&#8217;t think it was too close to being real. 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