{"id":19252,"date":"2010-11-17T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T23:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/unblogged-bits-wed-17-nov-10-1631.html"},"modified":"2010-11-17T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T23:31:28","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-17-nov-10-1631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/unblogged-bits-wed-17-nov-10-1631.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-Nov-10 1631)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. We need a strong political system<\/a> – “The United States still has the most dynamic economy, the strongest military, the best universities, and the most creative entrepreneurs, but our future depends in part on the health of our political system. And right now, Republicans are taking a sledgehammer to this component of the American foundation — and they do so without embarrassment, in part because they’re overwhelmed by a misguided ideology, and in part because they loathe our elected president.”<\/li>\n
  2. Murkowski wins improbable write-in campaign<\/a> – I don’t hold my breath that Murkowski will tilt away from the party that essentially ran against her … but it would be nice to see.<\/li>\n
  3. Maybe Congress should listen to them<\/a> – The GOP is taking prominent positions that opinion polls show the public disagrees with. And the Dems are ready to cave on every single one of them. Jeez.<\/li>\n
  4. Self-parody watch: Steve Benen<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Tea Party, Republican Activists Circulate Anti-Semitic E-Mails Against Presumptive Texas Speaker<\/a> – Stay classy, Texas!<\/li>\n
  6. Fair And Balanced? Fox News Chairman Calls Obama A Failed Socialist, But Defends \u2018Poor\u2019 Bush<\/a> – Someone needs a spanking.<\/li>\n
  7. 17 Apocalypses We’ll Never See Coming | Cracked.com<\/a> – Nice …<\/li>\n
  8. The Stars My Destination – fighting fire with fire<\/a> – What do you do when you discover someone has hacked a copy of your novel and uploaded it to various torrent sites? Ask folks to link to the free copy you’ve decided to host yourself …<\/li>\n
  9. Breakthrough! Scientists Create and Capture Antimatter – FoxNews.com<\/a> – Sweet!<\/li>\n
  10. Touching Junk: Men, Women, & Children \u00ab Chad’s Site<\/a> – Remember, honey … it’s not a BAD touch if the person is wearing a TSA badge …<\/li>\n
  11. More Than One in Seven Young Arabs Plan to Start a Business<\/a> – According to Bryan Fischer’s lights, this would make them Highly Biblical. If they weren’t all out to kill us, that is.<\/li>\n
  12. Oppression Mirror<\/a> – Christianity is discrimininated against, whites have less power than blacks, and torture is sanctioned by Jesus. In related news, up is down, black is white, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and, clearly, ignorance is strength.<\/li>\n
  13. Achtung! TSA!<\/a> – This is lovely.<\/li>\n
  14. Advocating Atheism = Life in Prison<\/a> – Disgusting. On the other hand, how many Christianists in this country would love to see blasphemy laws return here, and would be whole-heartedly behind this only it were about blasphemy toward the “right” Deity.<\/li>\n
  15. Colo. Supreme Court Throws Out Confession Obtained By Force – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver<\/a> – What’s most shocking here (more in terms of disgusting rather than surprising) is that it was a 4-3 decision.<\/li>\n
  16. Dancing With the GOP<\/a> – This is so freaking silly (silly beyond even DwtS), but will give all sorts of TPers a huge irrational amount of glee.<\/li>\n
  17. Product Differentiation<\/a> – And even the “cheap” isn’t.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. We need a strong political system – “The United States still has the most dynamic economy, the strongest military, the best universities, and the most creative entrepreneurs, but our future depends in part on the health of our political … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-Nov-10 1631)”<\/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":"","_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-19252","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":133973,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/nice-state-be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":19252,"position":0},"title":""Nice state. 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