{"id":21066,"date":"2011-05-18T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-wed-18-may-11-1730-3.html"},"modified":"2011-05-18T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:30:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-18-may-11-1730-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-wed-18-may-11-1730-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 18-May-11 1730)"},"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\/TA9gGp8d95s\/religious-right-and-republican-establishment-square-over-mitch-daniels\">Religious Right And Republican Establishment Square Off Over Mitch Daniels<\/a> &#8211; If it weren&#8217;t over someone who might possibly end up as our next president, I&#8217;d be sitting back in my chair and eating popcorn, watching this. GOP Establishment: &#8220;We&#8217;re afraid that a fringe religious zealot will get nominated and lose the election.&#8221; Religious Right: &#8220;That&#8217;s exactly the only person we will allow you to nominate.&#8221; GOP Establishment: &#8220;&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/OIywSdYsPgU\/misery_on_the_screen.php\">Misery on the screen<\/a> &#8211; Lordy, I hate slides like that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/4ODzBlAGRlA\/\">\u2018Awake\u2019 TV Trailer \u2013 Split-Reality Cop Drama<\/a> &#8211; It doesn&#8217;t sound interesting enough to devote it to regular watching (for me), but it does sound like an interesting idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/bAvn5lm0Rzk\/consumers-union-americans-deserve-a-financial-watchdog-not-a-big-bank-lapdog.html\">Consumers Union: Americans Deserve A Financial Watchdog Not A Big Bank Lapdog<\/a> &#8211; Well said, CU.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Dm3Y1qvvnJA\/\">Abbotta Bad Boy<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Sexually repressed men sure are a drag on the world.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/cVBqIPfZWzE\/\">Tea Party Leader To John Boehner: \u201cI\u2019m Sick Of The Tears\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Okay, I find Boehner a bit overwrought at times &#8212; but these guys are being dicks. Which isn&#8217;t surprising, perhaps, but &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/atRc-KhihEQ\/report-playstation-network-passwords-exploited-accounts-compromised.ars\">Report: PSN password resets exploited, accounts compromised again<\/a> &#8211; Ouch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/T1nk1aj5Wb8\/jerome-corsi-birther-book-5765410\">BREAKING: Jerome Corsi&#8217;s Birther Book Pulled from Shelves! &#8211; Esquire<\/a> &#8211; Be sure and read through to the end &#8230;<\/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;. Religious Right And Republican Establishment Square Off Over Mitch Daniels &#8211; If it weren&#8217;t over someone who might possibly end up as our next president, I&#8217;d be sitting back in my chair and eating popcorn, watching this. GOP Establishment: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-wed-18-may-11-1730-3.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Wed. 18-May-11 1730)&#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-21066","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":21064,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-wed-18-may-11-1730.html","url_meta":{"origin":21066,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 18-May-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-May-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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