{"id":19805,"date":"2011-01-10T04:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/unblogged-bits-mon-10-jan-11-0430.html"},"modified":"2011-01-10T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:30:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-10-jan-11-0430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/unblogged-bits-mon-10-jan-11-0430.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 10-Jan-11 0430)"},"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. “Daunting”<\/a> – Thank God that the brave GOP of Louisiana have made it possible for the visually impaired to hunt with frickin’ lasers<\/b> …<\/li>\n
  2. “There Is a Need for Some Reflection Here”<\/a> – “In the 21st century, a Republican senator who wants to convey a basic observation about rhetorical excesses, has to do so anonymously. We’ve reached the point at which a GOP senator wants to say that ‘tone matters,’ but can’t quite bring himself\/herself to say so on the record.”<\/li>\n
  3. Nine-Year-Old Victim’s Uncle: ‘How Do You Prepare For Something Like This?’<\/a> – Very, very sad.<\/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 …. “Daunting” – Thank God that the brave GOP of Louisiana have made it possible for the visually impaired to hunt with frickin’ lasers … “There Is a Need for Some Reflection Here” – “In the 21st century, a Republican … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 10-Jan-11 0430)”<\/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-19805","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":135624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/senator-cory-gardner-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":19805,"position":0},"title":"Senator Cory Gardner has … chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the election of Doug Moore (BWAH-HA-HA-HA!), my GOP Senator, Cory Gardner, had this to say: \u201cTonight\u2019s results are clear \u2013 the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. 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