{"id":22523,"date":"2011-09-05T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/unblogged-bits-mon-5-sep-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-09-05T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:30:50","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-5-sep-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/unblogged-bits-mon-5-sep-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 5-Sep-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. Things We Used To Say \u2013 2nd in a series on cliches that made our country strong \u00ab Decrepit Old Fool<\/a> – “We are in effect resting on past accomplishments \u2013 infrastructure built from the 1930\u2032s through the 1970\u2032s. No politician wants to hear from the bridge inspectors that they must sell a multi-million dollar \u201cexpense\u201d to the taxpaying, voting public. We\u2019d rather be afraid of swarthy foreigners than rusting bridges \u2013 even though in the long run the rusty bridges are a much greater hazard to our economy. Infrastructure is one of several necessary conditions for a sustainable economy.”<\/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 …. Things We Used To Say \u2013 2nd in a series on cliches that made our country strong \u00ab Decrepit Old Fool – “We are in effect resting on past accomplishments \u2013 infrastructure built from the 1930\u2032s through the 1970\u2032s. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 5-Sep-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_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-22523","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":13652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/obama_on_infrastructure.html","url_meta":{"origin":22523,"position":0},"title":"Obama on Infrastructure","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Oct-08 1:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This article has\u00a0a video from the New America Foundation on how investing in infrastructure is not only desperately needed, but is the sort of economic stimulus we pretty badly need....","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127851,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/the-interesting-impetus-to-immigration-interception-infrastructure.html","url_meta":{"origin":22523,"position":1},"title":"The Interesting Impetus to Immigration Interception Infrastructure","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Aug-15 11:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"More lovely satire from Andy Borowitz.'Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a Washington-based think tank called the Center for Responsible Immigration, believes that most Americans favor the building of border walls over extravagant pet projects like structurally sound freeway overpasses.\u201cThe estimated cost of a border wall with Mexico is five\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":128795,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/maybe-they-should-have-stuck-with-dos-5-0.html","url_meta":{"origin":22523,"position":2},"title":"Maybe they should have stuck with DOS 5.0","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Nov-15 11:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just like bridges and highways and buildings, software infrastructure needs to be maintained, too. 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