{"id":21450,"date":"2011-07-04T23:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-07-04T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:30:52","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-jul-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 4-Jul-11 2330)"},"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. One small step – NYPOST.com<\/a> – I agree that the “routine” is something that can — and will — be done by others. The question is, what will NASA do (or be allowed to do) next, especially in an era where “No We Can’t [with my tax dollars]!” seems to be the order of the day?<\/li>\n
  2. What our Declaration really said – The Washington Post<\/a> – “We praise our Founders annually for revolting against royal rule and for creating an exceptionally durable system of self-government. We can wreck that system if we forget our Founders\u2019 purpose of creating a representative form of national authority robust enough to secure the public good.”<\/li>\n
  3. Murdoch Paper Hacked Murdered Girl’s Voicemail<\/a> – News Corp keeps on with the evil.<\/li>\n
  4. Beijing-Shanghai Bullet Train Opens<\/a> – Silly Chinese! Don’t they know that modern, wealthy nations would rather use 80 million CARS instead?<\/li>\n
  5. The J. Paul Getty Museum collection comes alive with Google Goggles<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  6. Food safety: Government could cut screenings for deadly E. coli in produce – chicagotribune.com<\/a> – What’s the best way to eliminate all those food scares over E. coli? Defund the program that does sampling tests for it! GOP WIN!<\/li>\n
  7. Joho the Blog \u00bb Obama admin backs Berlusconi\u2019s unfettered \u201canti-piracy\u201d regs<\/a> – Because what could possibly go wrong with having a government agency be able to simply block or take down whatever they’re told is “pirated”?<\/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 …. One small step – NYPOST.com – I agree that the “routine” is something that can — and will — be done by others. The question is, what will NASA do (or be allowed to do) next, especially in an … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 4-Jul-11 2330)”<\/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-21450","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":12453,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/book_review_american_crea.html","url_meta":{"origin":21450,"position":0},"title":"Book review: American Creation by Joseph J. 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