{"id":22210,"date":"2011-08-17T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/unblogged-bits-wed-17-aug-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-08-17T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-17-aug-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/unblogged-bits-wed-17-aug-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-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. Perry on Bernanke: \u2018I dunno what y\u2019all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas\u2019 | ThinkProgress<\/a> – I’m sure the tough-guy Texas lynch-em-up talk will play well in some quarters. I find it disgusting.<\/li>\n
  2. Rick Perry And Sen. Grassley Promote Bizarre Myth About Non-Existent Tractor Regulation<\/a> – “Perry is either ignorant of the issue at stake here or is simply lying to score an anti-government political point.” Or simply doesn’t care.<\/li>\n
  3. Woman who recorded Massachusetts police beating charged with illegal wiretapping<\/a> – Interesting how the police always encourage the citizenry to keep an eye on each other and watch for “trouble,” but cry foul when the cameras are turned on them.<\/li>\n
  4. Cops in trouble for xtranormal cartoon, police dept. claims their YouTube video amounts to \u201ccyberstalking\u201d<\/a> – Ah, yes — claiming that mocking cartoon videos are “cyberstalking” — lovely misuse of the law by law enforcement.<\/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 …. Perry on Bernanke: \u2018I dunno what y\u2019all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas\u2019 | ThinkProgress – I’m sure the tough-guy Texas lynch-em-up talk will play well in some quarters. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-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-22210","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":33428,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/the-truth-hurts.html","url_meta":{"origin":22210,"position":0},"title":"The Truth Hurts","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Apr-13 12:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As +George Wiman\u00a0notes to Gov. Perry, it's not the victims who are being mocked here.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsSometimes being shown the truth is painful. Texas Governor Perry Demands Apology For Political Cartoon Governor Rick Perry wants an apology and his lieutenant governor wants the cartoonist fired. The cartoon shows\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25574,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/the-rise-and-fall-of-rick-perry.html","url_meta":{"origin":22210,"position":1},"title":"The Rise and Fall of Rick Perry","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jan-12 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Man, remember when Perry was the GOP Messiah, the Guy Who'd Take It All The Way, the charismatic governor with the spotless conservative credentials and the sparkling state economy?Bookmark those memories for 2015. 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