{"id":19733,"date":"2011-01-01T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/unblogged-bits-sat-1-jan-11-1630.html"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T23:30:52","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-1-jan-11-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/unblogged-bits-sat-1-jan-11-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat.  1-Jan-11 1630)"},"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\/S0ujZYHklng\/\">Chris Christie Defends Florida Vacation During Blizzard: \u2018A Great Five Days\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, Gov. Christie (R) is just a gift that keeps giving.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/m1Xoj7E28K8\/\">Chief Justice Roberts Calls for End to Senate Obstruction of Judges<\/a> &#8211; In this (despite the obligatory partisan equivalency) I concur with the Chief Justice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/p8k62L-VZJ0\/\">A Year, Collected<\/a> &#8211; This is very cool, and has been a fun project to follow along at Kate&#8217;s site.  I pondered doing it myself, and may some time &#8230; but &#8230; not quite yet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/aFNpVO5He4A\/kevin-smith-on-living-dream.html\">Kevin Smith on Living the Dream<\/a> &#8211; There is worst New Years advice &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/nLl8r7pTXCk\/joy_of_stats_full-length_video.php\">Joy of Stats: Full-length video [bioephemera]<\/a> &#8211; Sounds like this one&#8217;s for Margie &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/hVLl2bBfHIw\/\">I\u2019m An Atheist, but Tucker Carlson\u2019s a Dick<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Has a statement that begins with the words &#8216;I\u2019m a Christian\u2026 but&#8217; ever ended well?&#8221;  Yeesh.<\/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;. Chris Christie Defends Florida Vacation During Blizzard: \u2018A Great Five Days\u2019 &#8211; Yeah, Gov. Christie (R) is just a gift that keeps giving. Chief Justice Roberts Calls for End to Senate Obstruction of Judges &#8211; In this (despite the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/unblogged-bits-sat-1-jan-11-1630.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sat.  1-Jan-11 1630)&#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-19733","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":32624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/chris-christie-and-branding.html","url_meta":{"origin":19733,"position":0},"title":"Chris Christie and branding","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Feb-13 8:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the Democrats need to be somewhat careful in how they deal with Christie. \u00a0He is, in many ways, what McCain only pretended to be: a maverick. 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