{"id":19187,"date":"2010-11-13T22:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/unblogged-bits-sat-13-nov-10-2231.html"},"modified":"2010-11-13T22:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T05:31:06","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-13-nov-10-2231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/unblogged-bits-sat-13-nov-10-2231.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 13-Nov-10 2231)"},"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\/3XWnTY_PN1w\/\">Enjoy Getting Groped at Security Before You Fly this Holiday Season Courtesy  of the TSA!<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m seriously considering what I want to do when we travel at Christmas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/dJx6DKSvc44\/\">If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA | Cracked.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ceXmJMsHmKM\/\">In An \u2018Unusual\u2019 Meeting, Cantor Tells Netanyahu The GOP Majority \u2018Will Serve  As A Check\u2019 On Obama\u2019s Israel Policy<\/a> &#8211; Can you imagine a Democratic congressional leader telling the leadership of China, or France, or Syria, or Iran, or India, that his party would serve as a check on a GOP President? Can you imagine the outrage, the vitriol, the shouts of how the president is charged with handling foreign affairs, of the tradition of politics ending at the shoreline, and the claims of treason.  But, hey, it&#8217;s Israel, and it&#8217;s the GOP, so I don&#8217;t expect to hear many objections.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/94Vzn9hO4No\/\">Robo-Deer Draws Fire From Poachers<\/a> &#8211; Sweet!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/VvMA8eMtit0\/\">Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game<\/a> &#8211; Heh. This looks fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/PtIF23CtL28\/social-security-framing-debate\">Social Security: Framing the Debate<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Evidently Walker is the appointed &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; spokesman for the Meow Mix brigade. He will be everywhere, convincing us all we&#8217;re doomed, doomed, doomed to a future of dystopian poverty if we don&#8217;t follow the One True Guide back to prosperity. Beware.&#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;. Enjoy Getting Groped at Security Before You Fly this Holiday Season Courtesy of the TSA! &#8211; I&#8217;m seriously considering what I want to do when we travel at Christmas. If Other Industries Were As Evil as the RIAA | &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/unblogged-bits-sat-13-nov-10-2231.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sat. 13-Nov-10 2231)&#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-19187","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":25031,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/blaming-others-for-ones-misdeeds-gop-2012-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":19187,"position":0},"title":"Blaming others for one&#39;s misdeeds (GOP 2012 Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Jan-12 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It will be fascinating to watch the GOP blame Obama for not being \"post-partisan\" and healing the nation and bringing everyone together in Washington to find common answers for our various challengers ... when he's (a) been opposed tooth-and-nail by GOP leaders who very baldly stated that their number one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27040,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/is-the-gop-shooting-itself-in-the-foot-with-women.html","url_meta":{"origin":19187,"position":1},"title":"Is the GOP shooting itself in the foot with women?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Mar-12 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's all anecdotal here, but I can't imagine the reactions here are unique. 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