{"id":22983,"date":"2011-10-06T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/unblogged-bits-thu-6-oct-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:11:00","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-6-oct-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/unblogged-bits-thu-6-oct-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 6-Oct-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. Tainted Canteloupes Cause Pregnant Woman To Miscarry As GOP Still Fights To Gut Food Safety Laws | ThinkProgress<\/a> – “Party of Life,” anyone?<\/li>\n
  2. American Patriotism and God<\/a> – There’s a distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Love of country can be (indeed, like any true love, must be) both positive and critical. Putting your nation on a pedestal, though, is idolatry of the worst kind.<\/li>\n
  3. Execution by secret WH committee – Salon.com<\/a> – “Seriously: if you\u2019re willing to endorse having White House functionaries meet in secret \u2014 with no guidelines, no oversight, no transparency \u2014 and compile lists of American citizens to be killed without due process, what aren\u2019t you willing to support?” (Note: the Harry Tasker “But they were all bad” excuse doesn’t apply; this is not about the targets, but the process, because it’s the process that will eventually decide if the targets are “all bad.”)<\/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 …. Tainted Canteloupes Cause Pregnant Woman To Miscarry As GOP Still Fights To Gut Food Safety Laws | ThinkProgress – “Party of Life,” anyone? American Patriotism and God – There’s a distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Love of country can … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 6-Oct-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":[715,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20615,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-fri-1-apr-11-1730.html","url_meta":{"origin":22983,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 1-Apr-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Apr-11 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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