{"id":23280,"date":"2011-10-30T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/unblogged-bits-sun-30-oct-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-10-30T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:30:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-30-oct-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/unblogged-bits-sun-30-oct-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 30-Oct-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. Watch a State Trooper Chase Down a Cop Driving 120 MPH to His Second Job<\/a> – And for all of that, he was just going to get a ticket? No wonder cops seem to think they can always get away with crap — because they nearly always seem to get away with it.<\/li>\n
  2. Carrots with a stick — or else<\/a> – Private companies do this, and it’s lauded as cost-effective and responsibility-growing. Michelle Obama suggests that people might want to eat more greens, and she’s suddenly the Health Gestapo.<\/li>\n
  3. U.S. Military Program Teaches Foreign Military Students That Liberals Subverted America\u2019s Judeo-Christian Heritage | This Week in Christian Nationalism<\/a> – Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  4. Epic Movie Is Epic<\/a><\/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 …. Watch a State Trooper Chase Down a Cop Driving 120 MPH to His Second Job – And for all of that, he was just going to get a ticket? No wonder cops seem to think they can always get … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 30-Oct-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_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-23280","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":133950,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/is-trumps-transgender-military-ban-pandering-or-petulance.html","url_meta":{"origin":23280,"position":0},"title":"Is Trump's transgender military ban pandering or petulance?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 11:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because it sure doesn't seem to be based on sound military, medical, or fiscal policy.Money quote:\u275d This would be a military health-care spending increase of 0.04 to 0.13 percent. 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