{"id":21966,"date":"2011-08-04T17:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/unblogged-bits-thu-4-aug-11-1731.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:59:54","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-4-aug-11-1731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/unblogged-bits-thu-4-aug-11-1731.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 4-Aug-11 1731)"},"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. NYT: Only \u2018Liberal Critics\u2019 Call AFA A Hate Group<\/a> – But remember, we all know we have a “liberal media” …<\/li>\n
  2. Reid Raises Prospect Of Not Appointing Anyone To Super Committee If Republicans Remain Intransigent<\/a> – I still predict we’ll end up with three no-taxes Republicans, two moderate Dems, and one Blue-Dog Dem. So the GOP will win. Again.<\/li>\n
  3. Scientists confirm evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars<\/a> – Cool!<\/li>\n
  4. 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Original Star Trek<\/a> – Okay, I admit, I actually didn’t know a couple of these items (but knew several of them).<\/li>\n
  5. No, Peter Parker Isn\u2019t Dead, Black, Or Gay: Media Blatantly Attempts To Gin Up Outrage Over \u2018New Spider-Man\u2019<\/a> – Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  6. Pelosi: Republicans Aren\u2019t Interested In Deficit Reduction, They Are Interested In Destroying Government | ThinkProgress<\/a> – “Kill the Beast.” What’s remarkable is how much they’ve progressed in that goal in just a couple of years.<\/li>\n
  7. Cantor: Entitlement Promises \u2018Frankly, Are Not Going To Be Kept For Many\u2019 | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Except, of course, for ExxonMobil, et al.<\/li>\n
  8. Color video from Hiroshima \u2013 Boing Boing<\/a> – “The US Military may have successfully covered up video that showed the brutality of atomic warfare, but, in the intervening years, we saw the brutality of war (in general) in Vietnam and we saw what acute radiation poisoning can do the human body in Chernobyl. Secrets don’t stay buried even when secrets stay buried.”<\/li>\n
  9. mental_floss Blog \u00bb Who Was General Tso?<\/a> – He was certainly no chicken.<\/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 …. NYT: Only \u2018Liberal Critics\u2019 Call AFA A Hate Group – But remember, we all know we have a “liberal media” … Reid Raises Prospect Of Not Appointing Anyone To Super Committee If Republicans Remain Intransigent – I still predict … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 4-Aug-11 1731)”<\/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":[109,11,38,12,108,9,358,16,82,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-state","category-media-comics","category-food-drink","category-fourth-estate","category-history","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-space","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135513,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/climate-change-republicans-become-economics-deniers.html","url_meta":{"origin":21966,"position":0},"title":"As with Climate Change, Republicans have become Economics Deniers","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Dec-17 6:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Do they actually believe in supply-side economics? 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