{"id":21016,"date":"2011-05-11T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/unblogged-bits-wed-11-may-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:52:30","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-11-may-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/unblogged-bits-wed-11-may-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 11-May-11 2330)"},"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\/BiZVqpF76xk\/\">Forward This Graph to Anyone You Know Blaming Obama for High Gas Prices | Firedoglake<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ICmW6Yi9i5o\/bin_ladens_fict.html\">Bin Laden&#8217;s (Fictional) Mountain Fortress &#8211; Brainiac<\/a> &#8211; Plus it had a bridge over a pool of piranha that he could dump people into!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/jUKei70tXBw\/\">Rand Paul: If You Believe In A Right To Health Care, \u2018You Believe In Slavery\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Spoken like a true disciple of Ayn Rand.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/3GTmuFquVt0\/\">Presbyterian Church Lifts Ban On Gay And Lesbian Clergy<\/a> &#8211; Well done, Presbyterians.<\/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;. Forward This Graph to Anyone You Know Blaming Obama for High Gas Prices | Firedoglake Bin Laden&#8217;s (Fictional) Mountain Fortress &#8211; Brainiac &#8211; Plus it had a bridge over a pool of piranha that he could dump people into! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/unblogged-bits-wed-11-may-11-2330.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Wed. 11-May-11 2330)&#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":[99,131,10,134,25,358,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2012","category-energy","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-health-care","category-gay-stuff","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36545,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/coding-for-turtles.html","url_meta":{"origin":21016,"position":0},"title":"Coding for Turtles!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-May-13 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's something funny and ridiculous, and it has to do with medical care, so why wouldn't \"Dr. Paul\" use it to lambaste Obamacare.Problem is, it has nothing to do with Obamacare, and was actually mandated by the George W. 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