{"id":22171,"date":"2011-08-14T23:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-08-14T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:30:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-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. MIchele Bachmann: ‘I don’t judge gays’ – YouTube<\/a> – I just think they’re icky, evil, pathetic, and taken over by Satan. But I’m running for President right now, so I’ll wriggle and squirm over any effort to make me say that on TV.<\/li>\n
  2. United States Drops Behind South Africa Among Civilized Nations | MyFDL<\/a> – There is more to being a civilized nation than guaranteeing basic health care to all who need it. But it’s hard to my eyes to qualify without that.<\/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 …. MIchele Bachmann: ‘I don’t judge gays’ – YouTube – I just think they’re icky, evil, pathetic, and taken over by Satan. But I’m running for President right now, so I’ll wriggle and squirm over any effort to make me … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-22171","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":27568,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/connecticut-joins-the-civilized-world.html","url_meta":{"origin":22171,"position":0},"title":"Connecticut joins the civilized world","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Apr-12 1:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not convinced that there are not crimes that deserve the death penalty.I am far less convinced, though, that there has ever existed a judicial system capable of fairly and accurately and consistently applying that ultimate penalty -- and I am damned sure that our own is not one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alan.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F04%2Fgovernor_dannel_molloy-300x175.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":363,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/28\/comic_relief_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":22171,"position":1},"title":"Comic relief","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Apr-03 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Modern life is much improved by our civilized principles and ever-advancing technology. 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If we don\u2019t cultivate the demand for complex drinks \u2013 cocktails...","rel":"","context":"In "Potpourri"","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22171","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=22171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}