{"id":15738,"date":"2009-09-08T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-08-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-08T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:00:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-08-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-08-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 08 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:\/\/anglicanfuture.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/somehow-it-is-refreshing-pb-expands-on.html\">Somehow it is refreshing: PB expands on GC Sermon<\/a> &#8211; Some Episcotrivia here.  The idea that it&#8217;s not just enough to claim that one &#8220;loves God&#8221; but that one also must love (and demonstrate it in very concrete ways) one&#8217;s neighbor is what distinguishes what I would consider &#8220;true&#8221; Christianity from the demagoguery, law-loving, and cliquishness that distinguishes so many self-labeled Christians.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/09\/damn_right_your_dad_played_it.php\">Damn Right Your Dad Played It<\/a> &#8211; YES!  (And, apparently, he dressed up like a D&amp;D cartoon character &#8230; excellent!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/seattle-thousands-rally-favor-health\">In Seattle, thousands rally in favor of health-care reform. But not even the  local media cover it<\/a> &#8211; Don&#8217;t let the facts get in the way of a good &#8212; and convenient &#8212; story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/08\/boustany-boehner\/\">GOP Chooses Rep. Boustany, Co-Sponsor Of So-Called \u2018Death Panel\u2019 Provision,  To Deliver Obama Rebuttal<\/a> &#8211; Once you get beyond the idiocy of the requisite Opposition Party Response, this is really quite hysterical.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/PN0OBwUyneI\/\">Here It Is: The President\u2019s School Speech<\/a> &#8211; The President told students how much he&#8217;d already improved things, how he felt the economy and tax policy should be changed, and what he wanted Congress to pass.  Of course the President in this case was Reagan, so that&#8217;s okay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/aL5irdqayz4\/\">Florida GOP Chair Claims Obama Rewrote Speech; Used To Mock Democrats To  Schoolkids<\/a> &#8211; My eyes are getting very sore from all the rolling they&#8217;ve been doing of late.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/JI7LYDD5g88\/\">USA! We\u2019re Number One! In Arms Sales<\/a> &#8211; Maybe this is how we can work our way out of the economic downturn &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/IGHDeeLFFEU\/\">Laura Bush Backs Obama School Speech<\/a> &#8211; Well, clearly Laura has been co-opted by the SOCIALIST ATHEIST KENYAN ACORN DEATH PANEL movement in Washington.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/uvYVwz9ppa4\/\">The World\u2019s Funniest Tweets<\/a> &#8211; Nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/tea-bagger-bus-company-sued-over-blaze-that-killed-23-seniors.html\">Tea bagger bus company sued over blaze that killed 23 seniors<\/a> &#8211; The combination of incompetence, &#8220;dependence&#8221; on Federal oversight (and contracts), and use of undocumented workers by a Tea Party company would be hilarious, if it didn&#8217;t have a tragic side to it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/08\/lieberman-public-attainable\/\">Lieberman: Public option is \u2018not attainable\u2019 because \u2018the public doesn\u2019t  support it.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; The Big Lie continues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/08\/rove-lie-education\/\">Rove Lies: Obama Is Encouraging Students To Write To Him Personally For  \u2018Political Utility\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Because if there&#8217;s one guy out there who knows about using the White House for partisan ends, it&#8217;s Karl Rove.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/stemberger-traffics-stereotypes\">Stemberger Traffics In Stereotypes<\/a> &#8211; Wow. Been a while since I felt insulted for being of Irish descent, but Stemberger actually manages it.  So &#8230; when do ethics charges get filed?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/what-rifqa-bary-means-religious-right\">What Rifqa Bary Means To The Religious Right<\/a> &#8211; Irony #1: That &#8220;Focus on the Family&#8221; is more interested in religion than in keeping a family from being broken up.  Irony #2: If Ms. Bary actually is in danger, these loons have muddied the water so much that there&#8217;s no way to tell. They&#8217;ve either committed a grave injustice through their accusations (all in the name of Christ, of course), or they&#8217;ve made it more difficult to actually protect the woman they claim to be concerned about.  Except, of course, they&#8217;re not interested in an individual; they&#8217;re interested in the Cause.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Makeuseof\/~3\/_DW55761MF8\/\">4 Websites With LOTS Of Completely Free Ebooks That Don\u2019t Suck: Simon Slangen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/08\/moore-fox-capitalism\/\">Capitalism Crusader Tom Tancredo Begs For Handouts From Michael Moore: \u2018Send  Me A Check\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Because, of course, Tom Tancredo has so much credibility about &#8230; um &#8230; nothing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/08\/hannity-czars-job\/\">Hannity: Starting Now, My \u2018Job\u2019 Is To \u2018Get Rid Of Every Other One\u2019 Of  Obama\u2019s Czars<\/a> &#8211; And how many of these yahoos were lambasting the Democrats for not whole-heartedly approving every person that Dubya chose to nominate or make use of?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/o0cnlgmQn00\/-Surprise-baptisms,-yes.-Presidential-talk-to-kids,-no.\">Surprise baptisms, yes. Presidential talk to kids, no.<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.  Yeah, I have no doubt that this is a &#8220;Hell, no, no outsider has any right to be talking to my kid&#8221; kind of school.  So I have to wonder what, if anything, will happen to good ol&#8217; coach?  Wanna bet nothing, unless a law suit gets filed (and perhaps not event then)?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/csbiOP-JNNI\/al-franken-draws-map.html\">Al Franken draws map of the US<\/a> &#8211; That is very nicely done.  This is apparently a trick that Franken learned a long time ago.  I find it interesting that he does it state-by-state, rather than starting with an outline and filling in the detail.  I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d require every Congresscritter to be able to do this, but I&#8217;d love to make them prove they know where the other states are on a map.<\/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;. Somehow it is refreshing: PB expands on GC Sermon &#8211; Some Episcotrivia here. The idea that it&#8217;s not just enough to claim that one &#8220;loves God&#8221; but that one also must love (and demonstrate it in very concrete ways) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-08-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 08 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-15738","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":48846,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/mccain-on-the-torture-report.html","url_meta":{"origin":15738,"position":0},"title":"McCain on the Torture Report","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Dec-14 12:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been repeatedly, and gravely disappointed by John McCain several times over the past decade-plus. 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