{"id":21994,"date":"2011-08-05T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-aug-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-08-05T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T05:42:37","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-5-aug-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-aug-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 5-Aug-11 1130)"},"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. Panetta Can\u2019t Explain Why Defense Cuts Would Be \u2018Dangerous\u2019 | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Moody\u2019s Downgrades US Credit Rating to \u201cIt\u2019s Complicated\u201d \u00ab Borowitz Report<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Pod Cars, Moving Silently at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Cool …<\/li>\n
  4. German cops call airport full-body pornoscanners \u201cuseless,\u201d EU requires opt out from scanning: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. \u202aRobertson, Spencer: Media Hates America, Loves Islam\u202c\u200f – YouTube<\/a> – Yes, that’s Pat Robertson asking, with stunning lack of self-awareness, “Are you so anti-American, are you so opposed to this great nation and the freedoms you have that you want to embrace something out of the eighth century, BC …?” (Oh, and btw, Pat, Islam is from the seventh century … AD.)<\/li>\n
  6. The political aftermath of the debt ceiling [Thoughts from Kansas]<\/a> – Whether you think Obama’s a stooge or simply a poor leader on too many issues, the bottom line here is correct — the answer is to elect a better Congress. Of course, that’s easier to do with a better presidential candidate, and a president that didn’t start every negotiation with conceding half the field might actually be able to get a bit more done — but, yes, even the most brilliant leader of all time, faced with the GOP House, and the quasi-GOP Senate, would face very similar roadblocks.<\/li>\n
  7. Rep. Steve King Continues to Stake his Claim to the Title “Most Absurd Member of Congress.”<\/a> – And the competition is stiff!<\/li>\n
  8. Panetta Calls Potential Defense Cuts In Debt Deal Trigger \u2018Completely Unacceptable\u2019<\/a> – And, again, fantastic bargaining strategies from the Dems.<\/li>\n
  9. Vintage Recipes<\/a> – No wonder America fell in love with fast food.<\/li>\n
  10. The 11 Most Cynical Tom Lehrer Songs – Topless Robot<\/a> – Ah, Tom Lehrer. Love it.<\/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 …. Panetta Can\u2019t Explain Why Defense Cuts Would Be \u2018Dangerous\u2019 | ThinkProgress Moody\u2019s Downgrades US Credit Rating to \u201cIt\u2019s Complicated\u201d \u00ab Borowitz Report Pod Cars, Moving Silently at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 – NYTimes.com – Cool … German cops call airport … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 5-Aug-11 1130)”<\/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-21994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}