{"id":15797,"date":"2009-09-12T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-12-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-12T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-12-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-12-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 12 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:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/the-stakes.html\">The Stakes &#8211; Domestic Violence as a Pre-Existing Condition<\/a> &#8211; This is grotesque beyond measure.  But, as noted, &#8220;though these actions are immoral, they&#8217;re not economically irrational.&#8221;  Which is why driving health care decisions based on economics and profit motivation will always lead to evil.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/contractors-behaving-badly.html\">Contractors behaving badly<\/a> &#8211; Contractors can be a good choices for certain functions and needs.  For others?  Not so much.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/12\/price-medicare\/\">After calling for an end to government health care, Rep. Price runs away  when asked if that includes Medicare.<\/a> &#8211; Keep remembering these quotes and evasions.  Anyone who thinks that &#8220;Medicare reform&#8221; isn&#8217;t in the sights when the GOP gets around to &#8220;health care reform&#8221; is living in a dream.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/12\/armey-teapartypatriots\/\">Pressed On FreedomWorks\u2019 Connections To Tea Parties, Dick Armey Lashes Out  At TP As \u2018Juvenile Delinquents\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I guess openness, forthrightness, and honesty are not the sort of American virtues they are pushing this year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/damncoolpics.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/tree-cutting-fail.html\">Tree Cutting Fail<\/a> &#8211; Given the lack of attention here to safety gear, I&#8217;m not at all surprised.  Lucky he didn&#8217;t chop off a limb of his own (or his friend&#8217;s) while he was at it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2009\/09\/11\/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty\/\">The Max Tax: Rewarding Wal-Mart for Impoverishing Employees<\/a> &#8211; Disgusting. And we all know Wal-Mart is excellent at running the numbers and working their employee policies around them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2009\/09\/11\/looking-forward-moving-backward\/\">Looking Forward, Moving Backward<\/a> &#8211; It certainly does feel that way.  It&#8217;s unclear whether it&#8217;s because the Dems actually are more right-leaning than they seem (or enough of them are), because they suffer from not being all-or-nothing ideologues and actually think that compromise between men of good will is a good thing, or because, like Charlie Brown to Lucy&#8217;s football kicking offers, they just never learn that the folks the are caving to <b>aren&#8217;t<\/b> men of good will.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/only-planet-coulter-republicans-gutt\">Only on Planet Coulter: Republicans&#8217; gutting of regulatory oversight in  Madoff case proves it doesn&#8217;t work<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;You know just how crazy Ann Coulter&#8217;s worldview is getting when Bill O&#8217;Reilly serves as an honest-to-God voice of sanity in dealing with her &#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/dday\/unbelievable-baucus-and-conrad-cater-joe-wils\">Unbelievable! Baucus and Conrad Cater To Joe Wilson, Float Citizenship  Requirement For Insurance Exchanges<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s inefficient. It&#8217;s poorly planned.  It&#8217;s awful tactics.  And it&#8217;s just wrong.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/lugEi_JZYS8\/\">Michael Steele Attacks Obama For Kennedy Letter<\/a> &#8211; Yes, because heaven forfend anyone would play politics with Ted Kennedy&#8217;s name and words.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/11\/canadian-cpr-far\/\">Right-Wing Health Care Group Misled Canadian Interviewees Who Appeared In  Anti-Reform Ads<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, here&#8217;s a shock.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/cvN0iyAn478\/weve-seen-these-triggers_b_283583.html\">David Sirota: We&#8217;ve Seen These Triggers Before<\/a> &#8211; Triggers are an excuse never to let something happen.  They leave the decision with bureaucrats (with threats of the courts if a decision might be made that they don&#8217;t like), while giving the pols coverage for &#8220;we passed it&#8221; \/ &#8220;we blocked it&#8221;.  Bleah.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/oh-gov-send-rifqa-back\">OH Gov: Send Rifqa Back<\/a> &#8211; Good for him.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/11\/nadler-repeal-doma\/\">Lawmakers to introduce legislation next week repealing DOMA.<\/a> &#8211; Some people will call this a distraction.  I call it needed justice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/president-obama\/internal-dem-polling-memo-urges-dems-to-empasize-american-values-target-insurance-industry\/\">Internal Dem Polling Memo Urges Dems To Empasize American Values, Target  Insurance Industry<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not a big fan of using &#8220;target words&#8221; and manipulating the citizenry through too carefully crafted rhetoric.  But we know it&#8217;s exactly what the GOP does (and so effectively), and we know the Dems have been less than coordinated in their message.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/aoFcQ9ndxbg\/welcome-to-the-new-gilded-age-fueled-by-your-money\">Welcome To The New Gilded Age, Fueled By Your Money [What Recession?]<\/a> &#8211; I keep thinking that &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; is too easily turned into code for &#8220;too many contributions to us to fail.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/DUAdCoWlJiY\/this-just-in-white-house-agrees-with.html\">THIS JUST IN: White House agrees with Baucus and Conrad, appeases &#8220;You Lie!&#8221; Wilson<\/a> &#8211; Grinding my teeth here..<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~3\/1koZ4IX7pkU\/pac+man-world-record-broken\">Pac-Man World Record Broken [Records]<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Because it&#8217;s there.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/Zrw8Zw6W-iQ\/banquet-finds-grocery-shrink-ray-isnt-enough-hikes-price-as-well\">Banquet Finds Grocery Shrink Ray Isn&#8217;t Enough, Hikes Price As Well [Grocery  Shrink Ray]<\/a> &#8211; But at least the <b>picture<\/b> looks bigger.<\/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;. The Stakes &#8211; Domestic Violence as a Pre-Existing Condition &#8211; This is grotesque beyond measure. But, as noted, &#8220;though these actions are immoral, they&#8217;re not economically irrational.&#8221; Which is why driving health care decisions based on economics and profit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-12-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 12 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":{"_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-15797","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":15749,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/obamas-health-care-coverage-reform-speech-as-it-happened-hc09.html","url_meta":{"origin":15797,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s Health Care Coverage Reform speech, as it happened (#hc09)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Sep-09 7:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As we watch ... The Night of A Million Zillion Slowly Clapping Congress-critters. Watching CSPAN. Cannot stand the media talking heads elsewhere. Interesting start to the speech, to address the economy. Serious looks. Obama has his business face on. \"I am not the first president to take up this cause,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28909,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/13\/paul-ryan-on-medicare.html","url_meta":{"origin":15797,"position":1},"title":"Paul Ryan on Medicare","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Aug-12 8:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"His basic mantra is, \"Public health care for all costs too much money.\" Questions about outcomes, about comparisons to other companies, about how he backs up his assertion that we can provide private health care for all ... simply give way to repeating himself. \"Medicare is bankrupt. Medicare is bankrupt.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16165,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/for-all-those-who-perhaps-thought-that-getting-nearly-everything-they-wanted-would-appease-the-right.html","url_meta":{"origin":15797,"position":2},"title":"For all those who perhaps thought that getting nearly everything they wanted would appease the Right &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Nov-09 5:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... just scope out the lede (my emphasis) here: Conservatives condemn passage of House health bill (OneNewsNow.com) Monstrous and a defiance of the will of the American people - that's how one pro-family group is describing the health bill that House Democrats pushed through Saturday night by a vote of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16467,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-december-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":15797,"position":3},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 25 December 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Dec-09 5:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... On the US Gov't \"Going Google\": Philipp Lenssen The 16 Worst Christmas Specials of All Time - It's somewhat shocking that the Doctor Who \"Voyage of the Damned\" makes the list -- except that,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15474,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-31-july-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":15797,"position":4},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 31 July 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Jul-09 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE -- FUTURAMA IS SAVED - Topless Robot - - Huzzah! (Even though I don't watch the show much.) Kawaii! - Ferretcam! TEH CUTEZ!!!! 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