{"id":15817,"date":"2009-09-16T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-16-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-16T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T00:45:40","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-16-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-16-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 16 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:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/pSAHP4Nzvqc\/baucus-conrads-miserable_n_289253.html\">Baucus And Conrad&#8217;s Miserable Health Care Reform Day<\/a> &#8211; So let&#8217;s hear it for the fabulous negotiated bi-partisan bill that gave away so much of the store &#8230; and STILL didn&#8217;t get any bi-partisan support.  (Psst &#8230; that&#8217;s because the GOP doesn&#8217;t want ANY health care bill to pass, Max, no matter how much you give them.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/logan-murphy\/democrat-jerrold-nadler-introduces-re\">Democrat Jerrold Nadler Introduces &#8220;Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act&#8221;: Logan Murphy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/the-demonstrably-racist-rush-limbaugh.html\">The Demonstrably Racist Rush Limbaugh: publius<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/16\/limbaugh-hate-crimes\/\">Limbaugh Cares About Hate Crimes Only When Whites Are Victims \u2014 Even If They\u2019re Not Real Hate Crimes: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/16\/jones-sue-kbr\/\">Court rules that KBR employee\u2019s gang rape wasn\u2019t a personal injury \u2018arising  in the workplace.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I truly hope KBR &#8212; and the employees in question &#8212; are nailed to the frelling wall on this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/armstrong-williams-trying-kill-rifqa-bary\">Is Armstrong Williams Trying to Kill Rifqa Bary?: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/this-toothpaste.php\">This toothpaste is designed to knock you unconscious<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; well, it would also encourage you to brush your teeth before bed, so that&#8217;s a good thing.  But &#8230; no, I don&#8217;t think so.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Makeuseof\/~3\/rp12OG1zMj8\/\">10 Beautiful Green Grass Wallpapers For Your Desktop<\/a> &#8211; Ooh. They&#8217;d likely work on blogs, Twitter, etc., too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thepumphandle.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/16\/capturing-what-the-gdp-cant\/\">Capturing What the GDP Can\u2019t<\/a> &#8211; Using GDP as the primary measure of how well an economy is doing is sort of like using credit card debt as a measure of how wealthy someone is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-09-16-n74.html\">Syntax Samples of &#8220;Cascading HTML Style Sheets&#8221; (CHSS), a 1994 Work in Progress Predating Today&#8217;s CSS: Philipp Lenssen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DumbLittleMan\/~3\/L5B_fE8FruY\/47-ways-to-fine-tune-your-brain.html\">47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain<\/a> &#8211; I do pretty much all of these, though some of them not often enough.  I do like #7 &#8230; it&#8217;s something I tend to do naturally.  Also: <b>47!<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheInquisitr_tech\/~3\/y4dnPF9hK3c\/\">The absolute best picture describing Web 2.0 and Social Media<\/a> &#8211; Yup.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/IntoMobile\/~3\/do60oFxh3wE\/opera-mini-5-beta.html\">Review: Opera Mini 5 beta: New UI, tabs, copy and paste, better font rending<\/a> &#8211; Not planning on installing the beta, but I&#8217;ll undoubtedly install the new version once released.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/will-bunch\/drudge-limbaugh-and-the-s_b_287939.html\">Will Bunch: Drudge, Limbaugh, and the Sad Return of &#8220;Racial America&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that allegations of racism should be tossed out lightly, and I&#8217;ve cautiously watched this narrative unwind over the past couple of weeks. Today, there can be no doubt.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/faith_and_politics\/prayers_to_end_hateful_rhetori.html\">Prayers to end hateful rhetoric<\/a> &#8211; But &#8230; but &#8230; they&#8217;re <b>furriners<\/b> &#8230; we&#8217;re <b>supposed<\/b> to hate, despise, mistrust, and mistreat them!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/NY12z_3thb4\/joe-wilsons-son-alan-dad-_n_288215.html\">Joe Wilson&#8217;s Son Alan: Dad Isn&#8217;t Racist: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-09-16-n61.html\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations.&#8221; (Larry Page, 2003): Philipp Lenssen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lafiga.firedoglake.com\/2009\/09\/15\/late-night-darwin-bio-too-controversial-a-film-for-us-say-distributors\/\">Late Night: Darwin Bio Too Controversial a Film for US, Say Distributors<\/a> &#8211; <b>SIGH<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/Szhcd46fI7o\/is_getting_assaulted_by_your_hu.php\">Is Getting Assaulted By Your Husband a Pre-Existing Condition? [The Primate  Diaries]<\/a> &#8211; The invisible, yet violent, hand of the marketplace.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/GregLadensBlog\/~3\/qrpDmi1kAd0\/watch_this_video_in_a_new_wind_1.php\">Fight back against health insurance lies<\/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;. Baucus And Conrad&#8217;s Miserable Health Care Reform Day &#8211; So let&#8217;s hear it for the fabulous negotiated bi-partisan bill that gave away so much of the store &#8230; and STILL didn&#8217;t get any bi-partisan support. (Psst &#8230; that&#8217;s because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-16-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 16 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-15817","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":133646,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/health-insurance-reform-behind-closed-doors.html","url_meta":{"origin":15817,"position":0},"title":"Health insurance reform behind closed doors","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Jun-17 1:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) rakes Orrin Hatch and Tom Price and the Senate GOP for their handling of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and the lack of any public hearings over the bill they are planning on bringing to the Senate floor.' I heard you, Mr Secretary, just say,\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":27106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/domestic-violence-and-partisan-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":15817,"position":1},"title":"Domestic violence and partisan politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Mar-12 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm pretty sure that the Democratic leadership is engaging in some politics over the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, the bill as described, including its expansions, seems a fine one to me. 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And I say that with no intent to refer to either of their respective sizes.Yes, Rush, we all enjoy your sniggering defense of the guy who left two wives -- both of whom were ill -- in favor of the women\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":26804,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/explaining-how-the-pill-works-to-the-four-times-married-rush.html","url_meta":{"origin":15817,"position":3},"title":"Explaining how the Pill works to the four-times married Rush","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Mar-12 5:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, maybe that explains in part the multiple marriages ...\"Once you wade through the bile and the realization that the country's most popular conservative radio host has devoted hours on his show to attempting to bully a woman into silence for her views on birth control, it becomes clear\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":133854,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/14\/the-gop-expects-that-their-new-senate-bill-will-get-a-fantastic-score.html","url_meta":{"origin":15817,"position":4},"title":"The GOP expects that their new Senate Bill will get a FANTASTIC score!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Jul-17 6:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because they are seriously talking about kicking the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office to the curb and having the oh-so-neutral, who-could-doubt-its-integrity, grading-on-a-hyperbolic-curve Department of Health and Human Services do the scoring on the latest, greatest bits of their plan.Because how could a department that explicitly works for the Chief Executive, who\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":130789,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/03\/rush-limbaugh-is-charitably-disingenuous.html","url_meta":{"origin":15817,"position":5},"title":"Rush Limbaugh is &#8230; charitably, disingenuous","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Jun-16 4:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"I am giving Rush the benefit of the doubt here, because while I think his espoused views tend to be loathsome, I've never thought he was actually stupid, just fiendishly clever in trying to gin up a conservative audience.So when he starts making facile arguments about evolution, complaining about a\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}