{"id":22535,"date":"2011-09-07T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/unblogged-bits-wed-7-sep-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-09-07T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T23:30:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-7-sep-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/unblogged-bits-wed-7-sep-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 7-Sep-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. 5 Kicked Out and 3 Arrested at Paul Ryan Town Hall For Asking Questions<\/a> – Stay classy, Paul!<\/li>\n
  2. Tell your parents you love them while you still can: admin<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. New Report Shows High Schools Are Misleading (Or Lying To) Students About Labor History: Kenneth Quinnell<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. How New York City Built a Massive $3.8 Billion Underground Transit Station in the WTC’s Footprints [Monster Machines]<\/a> – Cool.<\/li>\n
  5. NYPD\u2019s secret \u201cAncestries of Interest\u201d list guided surveillance of innocent people identified as possible Muslim threats<\/a> – Just think of what all that time and money could have done in stopping some real<\/b> crime.<\/li>\n
  6. Is it Legal to Photograph or Videotape Police?<\/a> – Yes it is. Which doesn’t mean you won’t be sometimes harassed for it.<\/li>\n
  7. More Republicans Bail On Obama\u2019s Jobs Speech<\/a> – And the GOP continues to do its darnedest to delegitimize the president — and, you’d better believe, will screech like harpies on Fox News if a future GOP president is treated the same way.<\/li>\n
  8. Christ, That\u2019s Funny: Trick Photography<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  9. The Post Office is almost broke\u2014on purpose?<\/a> – The USPS does not receive taxpayer funding, but operates under Congressional oversight for what it can charge for postage, how it has to handle its pension funding, etc. The problem is, the alternative is not simply breaking up and privatizing the service — nobody actually wants to be obliged to deliver birthday cards to Aunt Sue in Podunk, Montana, but they’d love to take over a bigger chunk of the parcel business and commercial mail business, and do so at a larger profit. Put another way, if the USPS goes away and is replaced by private (non-union) vendors, does anybody really think mail prices will go down?<\/li>\n
  10. Washington Post Says It Is Time To Let Big Banks Off The Hook For Their Crimes<\/a> – The Washington Post is a dolt.<\/li>\n
  11. Third Party Candidate<\/a> – Sure, it sound good, but could you invite him over for a beer? And what about his religious beliefs? And that whole thing about the needs of the many suuuuure sounds like socialism to me …<\/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 …. 5 Kicked Out and 3 Arrested at Paul Ryan Town Hall For Asking Questions – Stay classy, Paul! Tell your parents you love them while you still can: admin New Report Shows High Schools Are Misleading (Or Lying To) … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 7-Sep-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-22535","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":130158,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/rip-paul-ryan-no-the-comic-book-paul-ryan.html","url_meta":{"origin":22535,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Paul Ryan (no, the comic book Paul Ryan)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Mar-16 5:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ryan wasn't my favorite artist of all time, but he was a reliable workhorse for Marvel, cranking out art on many of their major titles in the 80s and 90s -- Avengers, Fantastic Four, Captain America, and more. 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