{"id":21543,"date":"2011-07-11T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/unblogged-bits-mon-11-jul-11-1731.html"},"modified":"2011-07-11T17:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T23:31:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-11-jul-11-1731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/unblogged-bits-mon-11-jul-11-1731.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 11-Jul-11 1731)"},"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\/eD4RgEHzWUs\/\">Trouble For Murdoch: Feds Collecting Billions In Fines, Sending Executives To Jail For Corruption Abroad | ThinkProgress<\/a> &#8211; Nothing would make me happier than to see Murdoch and his empire go down in flames.  On the other hand, the DoJ has to tread very carefully, because, yes, being a &#8220;press&#8221; means any investigation and prosecution has to be beyond reasonable reproach. (Yes, looking askance at Fox will draw howls of persecution, which is why I said &#8220;reasonable&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/TUUNh_BcRpw\/\">McConnell: Casey Anthony verdict a warning &#8211; UPI.com<\/a> &#8211; See! Because we KNOW she&#8217;s guilty, so because she got off, our courts SUCK! So we should just toss people we KNOW are terrorists down the oubliette!  Heck, maybe folks we KNOW are murderers, and rapists, and drug dealers, and all of those other types we KNOW are guilty, too!<\/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;. Trouble For Murdoch: Feds Collecting Billions In Fines, Sending Executives To Jail For Corruption Abroad | ThinkProgress &#8211; Nothing would make me happier than to see Murdoch and his empire go down in flames. On the other hand, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/unblogged-bits-mon-11-jul-11-1731.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Mon. 11-Jul-11 1731)&#8221;<\/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-21543","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":686,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/31\/has_anyone_ever.html","url_meta":{"origin":21543,"position":0},"title":"Has anyone ever noticed &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Aug-01 9:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between Farscape's Stark and The A-Team's Howlin' Mad Murdoch? 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