{"id":15273,"date":"2009-07-21T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-21-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:04:14","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-21-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-21-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 21 July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/5Oit4gkBQ2g\/maddow-revisits-buchanan_n_242192.html\">Maddow Revisits Buchanan Segment, Adds Corrections (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/22\/sidewalks-are-for-kids\/\">Sidewalks are for Kids!!: lskenazy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/uHEgjfi3mEM\/flashback-to-1933-us-1.html\">Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler: McLaren+Torchinsky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/_iTPt8mo7_k\/\">The Truth About Canadian Health Care: Alan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/tnVgiUDlESk\/what-americans-want-for-t_b_242299.html\">John Zogby: What Americans Want for the Future of Health Care: John Zogby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=39249\">On July 20th, 1969&#8230;by Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Patrick Nielsen Hayden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/07\/our-broken-tax-politics.html\">Our Broken Tax Politics<\/a> &#8211; The Right&#8217;s effort to portray any taxes, of anyone, for any purpose, as evil is finally come to fruition.  And we&#8217;ll all pay for it, one way or another.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/07\/the-bananafication-of-the-republic.html\">The Bananafication of the Republic: Eric Martin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/we-can-never-build-oklahomas-republican-party-long-sally-kern-face-our-party\">&#8220;We Can Never Build Oklahoma\u2019s Republican Party as Long as Sally [Kern] is  the Face of our Party&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Money quote: &#8220;No Party, no group, no any person can ever win new members and sustain its base when the public image is single focused on legislating morality.&#8221;  Would that were so.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/anti-gay-groups-marriage-crusade-begins-its-attack-gay-marriagesand-some-straight-ones-too\">Anti-Gay Group&#8217;s &#8220;Marriage Crusade&#8221; Begins its Attack on Gay Marriages&#8230;And  Some Straight Ones Too<\/a> &#8211; An interesting glimpse into a broader belief and agenda.  Remember that, straight folks who didn&#8217;t get married in a church.  You may be next on the list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/every-right-wing-activst-america-demands-porn-meeting-ag-holder\">Every Right Wing Activst In America Demands Porn Meeting With AG Holder<\/a> &#8211; Because with everything else going on in this country, the Top Priority should be stamping out porn?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/21\/steele-scar-debate\/\">Scarborough And Steele Spar In Heated Debate Over Health Care: Steele Tells MSNBC Host, \u2018Spare Me\u2019: Faiz Shakir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/21\/castle-townhall\/\">From \u2018Socialized Medicine\u2019 To \u2018Dead Baby Juice,\u2019 GOP Moderate Faces Down  Rabid Right-Wing Conspiracies<\/a> &#8211; The term &#8220;GOP Moderate&#8221; is sadly becoming more and more of an oxymoron, as the leadership panders to and encourages the fringe conspiracy nuts &#8212; who then turn on anyone who doesn&#8217;t echo back Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s talking points.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/21\/rnc-memo-health-care\/\">RNC memo: \u2018[E]ngage in every activity we can to slow down\u2019 health care.<\/a> &#8211; More from the &#8220;Party of No.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/21\/f22-vote\/\">Senate votes to strip funding for the F-22.<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s about time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unscrewingtheinscrutable.com\/blogs\/jim-downey\/they-just-didnt-pray-hard-enough\">They just didn&#8217;t pray *hard* enough.<\/a> &#8211; Big surprise &#8212; telling kids that there&#8217;s no way to have sex safely means &#8230; kids have more unsafe sex.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/gadgets\/~3\/fthHADAyXbA\/amazon-refuses-to-sa.html\">Amazon refuses to say when it will delete customers&#8217; books from Kindles<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s a lot of things about Amazon I like. The way they&#8217;ve handled this whole mess has demonstrated some serious gaps in their understanding of their customers in this area.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/typepad\/sethsmainblog\/~3\/-qUI9mWt2oY\/winning-on-the-uphills.html\">Winning on the uphills<\/a> &#8211; Some good business (and personal) lessons here.  The success stories of the next economic upturn are being started during this downturn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/editorialass.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/is-it-true-are-40-of-books-printed.html\">Is It True?! Are 40% of Books Printed Pulped?!<\/a> &#8211; One wouldn&#8217;t think that a terribly inefficient Ponzi scheme could long survive.  And, in fact &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/general_convention\/bishop_robinson_describes_how_1.html\">Bishop Robinson describes how the House of Bishops decided: Nicholas Knisely<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Maddow Revisits Buchanan Segment, Adds Corrections (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team Sidewalks are for Kids!!: lskenazy Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler: McLaren+Torchinsky The Truth About Canadian Health Care: Alan John Zogby: What Americans Want for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-21-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 21 July 2009&#8221;<\/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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134186,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/tweetizen-trump-2017-08-11-locked-loaded.html","url_meta":{"origin":15273,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-08-11: &#8220;Locked and Loaded&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Aug-17 9:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"[Being a look at the @RealDonaldTrump Twitter account, with a glance at the @POTUS account, grouped for your topical pleasure.] Friday? 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