{"id":19342,"date":"2010-11-27T22:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/unblogged-bits-sat-27-nov-10-2232.html"},"modified":"2010-11-27T22:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T05:32:02","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-27-nov-10-2232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/unblogged-bits-sat-27-nov-10-2232.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 27-Nov-10 2232)"},"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. Scowcroft goes there<\/a> – “This is no small observation. Scowcroft, one of the more respected Republican voices in the national security establishment, is noting, on the record, that he suspects his own party is putting their partisan interests above the needs of the nation. The underlying point of an observation like Scowcroft is that he sees his Republican Party putting petty partisanship above national security.”<\/li>\n
  2. Terror plot thwarted in Oregon<\/a> – A valuable case, both in terms of the success involved and what didn’t have to be done to ensure same (military, tribunals, torture, etc.).<\/li>\n
  3. Marco Rubio – Catholic or Protestant? – Beliefs – NYTimes.com<\/a> – In some ways, this is indicative of a 150-year-long trend, filing off the difference between various Protestant sects and, now, Catholicism as well, as far as American practice goes. This is a positive, insofar as it avoids contention between theological differences that most people really don’t care about, but a negative insofar as those differences still technically remain and are relied upon by the leadership of various denominations in how they seek to affect political policy.<\/li>\n
  4. The political world should know better by now<\/a> – This is why I try not to pay any attention to polls until 6 months before the election, at the earliest. Better off determining future results via tea leaves.<\/li>\n
  5. Blurring the satirical line<\/a> – Fox News is no more realistic than the Onion — but a lot less amusing.<\/li>\n
  6. Stimulus facts are stubborn things<\/a> – “All told, as many as 3.6 million Americans have jobs right now, who would otherwise be out of work, thanks to the maligned Recovery Act.” But, of course, those are EVIL jobs, so we would be better off without them.<\/li>\n
  7. ThinkProgress \u00bb Rep. Inslee Attacks Anti-Innovation GOP: Move To Clean Energy \u2018Or China Is Going To Eat Our Lunch\u2019<\/a> – It’s remarkable that the supposedly economy-savvy and free-market-competitive GOP is so willing to hang onto the economies of the past while ceding the economies of the future to other countries — like the PRC.<\/li>\n
  8. AFP: Russia admits Stalin ordered Katyn massacre of Poles<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. April 11, 1954 was most boring day in history – The Times of India<\/a> – Not that a boring day is necessarily a bad thing, given the various dire alternatives.<\/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 …. Scowcroft goes there – “This is no small observation. Scowcroft, one of the more respected Republican voices in the national security establishment, is noting, on the record, that he suspects his own party is putting their partisan interests above … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 27-Nov-10 2232)”<\/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-19342","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":132851,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/party-time.html","url_meta":{"origin":19342,"position":0},"title":"Party Time","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-17 7:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Rand Paul is an odd duck. 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