{"id":15726,"date":"2009-09-06T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-06-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-06T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:00:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-06-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-06-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 06 September 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:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/john-harwood-lets-face-it-country-three-hundred-mi\">John Harwood: Let&#8217;s Face It, In a Country of Three Hundred Million People,  There are a Lot of Stupid People<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/WhiskeyFire\/~3\/59LBVyNF2F8\/begging-for-a-little-indoctrination.html\">Begging for a little indoctrination<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I will have to relay these values to both of my children, which is the other reason this concern is silly. If your conservative values are so correct and eternal then they won&#8217;t be threatened by Obama speaking to your children for a couple of minutes, now will they. Are they really so fragile that they can&#8217;t stand up to that. Secondly, this provides you as a parent with a golden opportunity to explain your own values and their basis to your children and why they might diverge from the president&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/04\/a-strange-madness\/\">A strange madness &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Well, of course, it doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with anything Obama has actually said or done.  See how sneaky he is?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/05\/grassley-secret-fundraiser\/\">Exclusive: Grassley Attends Secret Miami Fundraiser And Touts Opposition To  Obama Health Care Plan<\/a> &#8211; It never hurts to point out the hypocrisy in negotiating to make it work while in DC and claiming you&#8217;re going to defeat it elsewhere.  In one place or the other, Grassley&#8217;s a liar.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/05\/posey-public-option\/\">Rep. Posey: I\u2019m For Gov\u2019t-Insured Health Care For Myself And The Elderly,  But Against Public Option<\/a> &#8211; And you expect a coherent policy statement from Rep. Posey because &#8230;?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/michael-kinsley-mocks-factcheckers.html\">Michael Kinsley mocks fact checkers<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.&#8221; &#8212; Michaelangelo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/if-youre-stupid-and-you-know-it-stomp.html\">En Tequila Es Verdad: If You&#8217;re Stupid and You Know It Stomp Your Feet<\/a> &#8211; Teaching values to school kids for me but not for thee.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1210706\/Caught-camera-Mother-Nature-cries-river-tears-global-warming-threatens-planet.html\">Caught on camera: &#8216;Mother Nature&#8217; cries a river of tears as global warming threatens our planet | Mail Online<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure all the &#8220;I saw the Virgin Mary in my grilled cheese sandwich&#8221; will pass this by without comment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/thisisnthappiness\/~3\/kKQf95o-do4\/180483281\">The health care industry currently spends $1.4 million a day&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Which simply begs the question of how much they are making to be able to afford that &#8212; and why people not in the industry might think that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/bezfuJ4KVfE\/-Bill-Moyers-Writes-the-President-About-Health-Care-Reform\">Bill Moyers Writes the President About Health Care Reform: Meteor Blades <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/damondnollan\/~3\/t0AGJuAMZq8\/what-is-rss-brief-overview.html\">What is RSS? A Brief Overview.<\/a> &#8211; A nice primer to flag for folks who don&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/Eo0ICVo50H4\/\">Maps Wars: How Google, Microsoft And Yahoo Deal With Bridge Closure<\/a> &#8211; Interesting differences.  I  think they could do still better by putting some sort of flag in the middle of the bridge, for folks who only look at the map and not at the text.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DigitalPhotographySchool\/~3\/lbLRSlkhqBY\/how-to-avoid-camera-shake\">How to Reduce Camera Shake &#8211; 6 Techniques<\/a> &#8211; As someone who hates flash photography, some great advice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/thisisnthappiness\/~3\/kKQf95o-do4\/180483281\">The health care industry currently spends $1.4 million a day&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Your quasi-tax dollars at work.<\/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;. John Harwood: Let&#8217;s Face It, In a Country of Three Hundred Million People, There are a Lot of Stupid People &#8211; Ha! Begging for a little indoctrination &#8211; &#8220;I will have to relay these values to both of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-06-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 06 September 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15726","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":8828,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/who_will_protec.html","url_meta":{"origin":15726,"position":0},"title":"Who will protect our children &#8230;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Apr-06 9:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"... from that pernicious and evil corrupter of youth and destroyer of all upright values? 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