{"id":22100,"date":"2011-08-11T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/unblogged-bits-thu-11-aug-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-08-11T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:30:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-11-aug-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/unblogged-bits-thu-11-aug-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 11-Aug-11 1730)"},"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. Attacks on Science Education Intensify: \u201cThere Seems To Be a Lynch-Mob Hate Against Any Teacher Trying to Teach Climate Change\u201d<\/a> – “You\u2019re not just instilling denial. You\u2019re creating the next generation of political dysfunction. You\u2019re not teaching kids to think, you\u2019re teaching them to shout.”<\/li>\n
  2. Israel Expresses Appreciation For U.S. Support By Announcing More Settlements<\/a> – And yet the Right will continue to lambaste Obama as being anti-Israel.<\/li>\n
  3. Mitt Romney: Corporations Are People! – Updated<\/a> – Once corporations can be put in jail or be drafted into the military, I’ll consider calling them people.<\/li>\n
  4. Tea Party Congressman Defaults On $2.2 Mil Loan; Says Bank Should Have Known He Couldn\u2019t Pay<\/a> – I don’t know whether to laugh hysterically or foam at the mouth over this.<\/li>\n
  5. None of Reid’s picks for Super Committee particularly trusted by liberals<\/a> – And, of course, all it will take is one of them to go along with the rigid ideologues the GOP put forward to create the requisite majority to do … well, whatever the GOP wants.<\/li>\n
  6. Pa. Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal<\/a> – Not long enough, but it will do.<\/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 …. Attacks on Science Education Intensify: \u201cThere Seems To Be a Lynch-Mob Hate Against Any Teacher Trying to Teach Climate Change\u201d – “You\u2019re not just instilling denial. You\u2019re creating the next generation of political dysfunction. You\u2019re not teaching kids to … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 11-Aug-11 1730)”<\/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-22100","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":130324,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/the-libertarian-dream-city.html","url_meta":{"origin":22100,"position":0},"title":"The Libertarian Dream City","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Mar-16 6:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to Gurgaon, India, where chunks of the city are owned, and run, by large development corporations, largely without any sort of civic oversight or regulation. 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