{"id":18736,"date":"2010-09-28T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/unblogged-bits-tue-28-sep-10-1730.html"},"modified":"2010-09-28T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:30:40","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-28-sep-10-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/unblogged-bits-tue-28-sep-10-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 28-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\/Yh3EgP9v26g\/bs-md-recorded-traffic-stop-20100927,0,327892,print.story\">Judge says man within rights to record police traffic stop &#8211; baltimoresun.com<\/a> &#8211; A very good ruling from the judge. The compelling and well-established need to &#8220;watch the watchmen&#8221; succeeded in the face of some very goofy slippery-slope arguments by the State&#8217;s Attorney.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/1XfdI45Op9g\/First-World-War-officially-ends.html\">First World War officially ends &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/q6FusGmvcPY\/\">Flag Furor: North Carolina Town Battles Over Christian Banner \u00ab The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; People love the majority being in control &#8230; when they&#8217;re in the majority.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/PsORkt3sltE\/\">American Spectator: Chris Coons Must Be A Witch Too Because His Grad School  Teaches A Class On Witchcraft<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; yeah, between stupid and evil, I&#8217;d call this one evil.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/zSL9EEimEvQ\/nothing-can-stop-the-duke-of-earl.html\">Nothing can stop The Duke of Earl<\/a> &#8211; Re Christine O&#8217;Donnell: &#8220;No one is that stupid. And that leaves only one other possible explanation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/TiwVol34i5Y\/\">Deleting WordPress Revisions<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll probably use the plug-in here, but it&#8217;s a great idea regardless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/2GyPcGg10jk\/025887.php\">Obama puts Fox News in a historical context<\/a> &#8211; &#8230; and Fox News immediately illustrates it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/JTODtNeoOjY\/025885.php\">A passionate plea<\/a> &#8211; Obama&#8217;s passionate plea would be more effective if it were not accompanied by Administration comments about the Left &#8220;whining&#8221; all the time.  That said (and hand-waving away civil rights\/liberties concerns), there is absolutely no question that anyone on the Left who is unhappy with the current political agenda in DC right now will be appalled by what comes if the GOP takes one or both houses of Congress.  Feel all the frustration over Obama you want, but consider what the alternative will bring.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/xIiDHbxwoOQ\/lotts-more-guns-less-crime-speech-ut-canceled-after-shooting\">Lott&#8217;s &#8220;More Guns, Less Crime&#8221; Speech At UT Canceled After Campus Shooting<\/a> &#8211; Timing is everything.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/MwdHCsZrNiw\/\">Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care: Ben Armbruster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/J914gXGHEqY\/\">Sanders: Chamber Would Rather Have Companies Pay Vietnamese 20 Cents An Hour  Than Hire Americans<\/a> &#8211; These proud GOP sponsors have the best congress-critters money can buy. Sure hope the Dems play this one up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/DZcOidDdXQw\/1204784316\">Judge Judy makes more in a year than Jay Leno, Conan O&#8217;Brien, and Ellen DeGeneres&#8230;combined.<\/a> &#8211; If you look (just) at their salary from their shows.<\/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;. Judge says man within rights to record police traffic stop &#8211; baltimoresun.com &#8211; A very good ruling from the judge. The compelling and well-established need to &#8220;watch the watchmen&#8221; succeeded in the face of some very goofy slippery-slope arguments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/unblogged-bits-tue-28-sep-10-1730.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Tue. 28-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_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-18736","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":42091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/constitutional-rights-are-not-a-popularity-contest.html","url_meta":{"origin":18736,"position":0},"title":"Constitutional Rights are not a popularity contest","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-May-14 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Judges sometimes make unpopular rulings, which lead to loud, strident cries of \"This violates the Will of the People! 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