{"id":19124,"date":"2010-11-05T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-nov-10-2330.html"},"modified":"2010-11-05T23:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T05:30:39","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-5-nov-10-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-nov-10-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri.  5-Nov-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\/6cBMjxHmTlE\/is-marvel-nickel+and+diming-the-avengers-to-death\">Is Marvel nickel-and-diming The Avengers to death?<\/a> &#8211; Yeah &#8230; because we really want to lowball the budget for the flagship film with a multitude of different characters. Ugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/tFHKw7mQM6g\/23-harwood-court-renovation.aspx\">Video: Harwood Court Renovation Project &#8211; Pomona College<\/a> &#8211; My old dorm in college.  Man, I wish we&#8217;d had ceiling fans in each room in my day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Ldz7YWujQpQ\/AR2010110406625.html\">Eugene Robinson &#8211; Nancy Pelosi, undone by her own success<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve always found Pelosi&#8217;s style and presence irritating and off-putting in the extreme &#8212; but she&#8217;s also been a much more effective progressive leader than Reid or Obama. I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s seeking to stay on as Minority Leader.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Q2U9nMeDNbI\/cair_member_sues_oklahoma_over_sharia_ban.php\">CAIR Member Sues Oklahoma Over Sharia Ban | TPMMuckraker<\/a> &#8211; An interesting perspective on what Oklahoma&#8217;s &#8220;pre-emptive strike&#8221; means.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/nfQwQ76ZkS8\/sudden_silence_from_voter_fraud-mongerers_post-ele.php\">Report Notes &#8216;Sudden Silence&#8217; From Voter &#8216;Fraud-Mongerers&#8217; Post-Election | TPMMuckraker<\/a> &#8211; No doubt they&#8217;ll be back in &#8230; oh, September 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/S8V-wk6H6Gg\/frc-if-survey-says-soldiers-dont-oppose-repealing-dadt-survey-must-be-flawed\">FRC: If Survey Says Soldiers Don&#8217;t Oppose Repealing DADT, The Survey Must Be  Flawed<\/a> &#8211; If we can just ask the right questions, I&#8217;m positive we can get the answers we really want to see!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/QG6ky-2VCfs\/fischer-accuses-obama-flipping-his-enemies\">Fischer Accuses Obama Of &#8220;Flipping Off&#8221; His Enemies<\/a> &#8211; Yes, and if you look at the video Fischer is flogging here, Obama is cunningly and covertly flipping someone off &#8230; WITH HIS RING FINGER.  The thuggish fiend!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/tOjwcYGYBzI\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Stimulus Bashing Governors Issue Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Stimulus Funded Bonds<\/a> &#8211; It may be hypocritical, but it lets them bash the Democrats while profiting from them. It&#8217;s a win-win!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/dreK_BJKv60\/geekdesk.html\">GeekDesk<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d love to have a standing desk.  Hmmmmm &#8230;<\/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;. Is Marvel nickel-and-diming The Avengers to death? &#8211; Yeah &#8230; because we really want to lowball the budget for the flagship film with a multitude of different characters. Ugh. Video: Harwood Court Renovation Project &#8211; Pomona College &#8211; My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-nov-10-2330.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Fri.  5-Nov-10 2330)&#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-19124","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":134750,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/college-tours.html","url_meta":{"origin":19124,"position":0},"title":"College Tours","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Sep-17 10:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ah, college tours. 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