{"id":22101,"date":"2011-08-11T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/unblogged-bits-thu-11-aug-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-08-11T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T05:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-11-aug-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/unblogged-bits-thu-11-aug-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 11-Aug-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. The greatest degeneration<\/a> – “For 40 years or more we\u2019ve been coasting off the momentum of our predecessors, and there\u2019s little to indicate that we still possess either the will or the capacity \u2014 the moxie \u2014 it would take to ensure there\u2019s any of it left for the generations to follow ours 40 years from now.”<\/li>\n
  2. The Bible vs. The Facts?<\/a> – “By declaring falsifiable beliefs to be central tenets of Christianity, Mohler warps our faith into a superstition. That renders it something that can be, and will be, disproved, dismissed and abandoned.”<\/li>\n
  3. Jim DeMint: Obama Administration \u201cThe Most . . . Anti-American . . . In My Lifetime\u201d<\/a> – And then Obama wonders why efforts to compromise with these dolts are unsuccessful.<\/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 …. The greatest degeneration – “For 40 years or more we\u2019ve been coasting off the momentum of our predecessors, and there\u2019s little to indicate that we still possess either the will or the capacity \u2014 the moxie \u2014 it would … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 11-Aug-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-22101","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":132537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/one-gets-the-impression-they-shot-about-40-hours-of-movie-here.html","url_meta":{"origin":22101,"position":0},"title":"One gets the impression they shot about 40 hours of movie here","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jan-17 10:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to all the intentional reshoots of stuff for Rogue One, apparently they also just had a half hour or more of just shooting interesting stuff and random ideas at the end of production each evening. 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