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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Despite Earlier Claims, Steve King Admits That None Of His Constituents Died After Reintroduction Of Estate Tax<\/a> – Honestly? If a gazillionaire decides to bump himself off early because he wants all the junior gazillioniare kids to not have to pay an estate tax (which really only affects gazillionaires) … let him.<\/li>\n
  2. \u2018In God We Trust\u2019 Signs Making Their Way Through Missouri\u2026<\/a> – The “historic and patriotic words” — but not religious. They can’t call them religious words. Even though they are, of course, patently religious, and to not call them religious makes you either a liar or someone who is actually trying to cubbyhole God into being some sort of secular totem. Neither of those is likely to make God very happy.<\/li>\n
  3. Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic’s Own Data Confirms Warming : TreeHugger<\/a> – Nice!<\/li>\n
  4. Rep. Graves Calls GOP\u2019s Billions In Oil Subsidies \u2018Market Manipulation;\u2019 Forgets That He Voted To Extend Them<\/a> – We subsidize oil because, of course, oil subsidizes congress. That’s about the only reason I can think of.<\/li>\n
  5. Who Does the US Owe Money To?<\/a> – Intersting — and far less China on there (both today and on the growth chart) than popular fearmongering has it.<\/li>\n
  6. Californians back raising taxes on state’s wealthy<\/a> – It’s about time somebody does.<\/li>\n
  7. A Pastor Who Changed His Mind About Homosexuality<\/a> – In each of the cases that changed his mind, it was a matter of personal engagement — of getting to know folks as individuals, not just labels. That’s almost always true in overcoming prejudice, and it’s why the anti-gay folks are so eager to continue to demonize and marginalize gays. Out of sight, out of mind.<\/li>\n
  8. The name is Christ … Jesus Christ<\/a> – The Jehovah’s Witnesses dropped by the house today. This image doesn’t show it as well as the original of the pamphlet they left, but I swear Jesus looks like (a younger, hairier) Sean Connery.<\/li>\n
  9. Israeli weapons in Libya? Andy Carvin and his Twitter followers debunk sloppy reporting, tweet by tweet<\/a> – Fascinating tale of Internet rumor.<\/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 …. Despite Earlier Claims, Steve King Admits That None Of His Constituents Died After Reintroduction Of Estate Tax – Honestly? If a gazillionaire decides to bump himself off early because he wants all the junior gazillioniare kids to not have … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 2-Apr-11 1730)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-20631","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":20632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/unblogged-bits-sat-2-apr-11-1730-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":20631,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 2-Apr-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Apr-11 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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