{"id":16053,"date":"2009-10-19T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-19-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:18:50","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-19-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-19-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 19 October 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:\/\/wonkette.com\/411691\/pieces-of-red-state-send-rock-salt-to-snowy-clime-as-a-protest-plan-falling-in-place\">Pieces Of Red State \u2018Send Rock Salt To Snowy Clime, As A Protest\u2019 Plan Falling In Place<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s probably one of the goofier protests I&#8217;ve read about in a long time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/FeOXQ3NDozM\/\">PA GOP Replaces \u201cO\u201d In Obama\u2019s Name With Hammer And Sickle<\/a> &#8211; And this, children, is one reason why partisan court elections are such a bad idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/afghanistan\/does-president-obama-care-about-public-opinion-on-afghanistan\/\">Does President Obama Care About Public Opinion On Afghanistan?<\/a> &#8211; We neither want a President who is a slave to the polls, nor who disregards what the people think. A leader and a servant. It&#8217;s a very difficult role to play, and few Presidents have done it consistently well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2009\/10\/16\/nanowrimo-the-debbils-adbocate\/\">NaNoWriMo: The Debbil\u2019s Adbocate<\/a> &#8211; Some useful perspective on NaNoWriMo &#8230; though it&#8217;s not going to stop me from doing it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/omg.yahoo.com\/news\/hollywood-waiter-claims-run-in-with-hung-star-cost-him-his-job\/29109?nc\">Hollywood Waiter Claims Run-In With &#8216;Hung&#8217; Star Cost Him His Job &#8211; omg! news on Yahoo!<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; bitch about your job online, in an identifiable way, esp. about an identifiable client, and, yeah, that&#8217;s a likely reason to get fired. Unprofessionalism usually is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/why-wording-counts\/\">Why Wording\u00a0Counts: Drea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/HowToGeek\/~3\/0dAmWynErGo\/\">The 20 Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7<\/a> &#8211; Making a note to look at this after we do Win7.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jimhillmedia.com\/blogs\/jim_hill\/archive\/2009\/10\/15\/old-school-pooh.aspx\">Jim Hill: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh<\/a> &#8211; Well-done is well-done. If they can take the character in a proven setting and tell good, solid tales with them, then it&#8217;s a great thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63617-report-new-doj-guidelines-to-back-medical-marijuana-laws\">Report: New DOJ guidelines to back medical marijuana laws &#8211; The Hill&#8217;s Blog Briefing Room<\/a> &#8211; I am sure all true conservatives will be thrilled at this example of the Obama Administration&#8217;s support of states rights.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/d0tLvz75GGk\/some-christians-mad.html\">Some Christians mad at R. Crumb<\/a> &#8211; Unless they can point to some sex and violence he portrays that <b>isn&#8217;t<\/b> in the Book of Genesis, I suggest they leave off. If you&#8217;re going to argue that Scripture is the Directly Transcribed Word of God, then turning around and downplaying any aspect of it seems more than a bit suspect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/africa\/denounced_as_witches_african_c_1.html\">Denounced as witches, African children suffer mightily<\/a> &#8211; One wonders where Abp. Akinola, so fiery and frothing at the American church for embracing The Evil Gays, is in stopping these horrifying activities in his own back yard.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/iN5iVwmPm5Y\/game-of-choice-for-extremists-and-eliminationists-2011-obama-coup-fails\">Game of choice for extremists and eliminationists &#8211; &#8216;2011: Obama Coup Fails&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not so much that someone&#8217;s developed this game, but that (a) it&#8217;s so badly put together, and (b) so badly written. One could write this sort of thing semi-believably by turning the hyperbole-meter down to only 11, and be far more effective. (See Harlan Ellison&#8217;s &#8220;Glass Teat&#8221; column about the Resistance in a Nixonian Fascist State for a less breathless example &#8212; and we are talking Harlan Ellison here as a model for calm, which tells you how over-the-top this particular &#8220;game&#8221; is.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/19\/perino-msnbc\/\">Perino admits the Bush administration essentially froze out MSNBC \u2018towards the end.\u2019: Matt Corley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/byron-williams\/mormon-paradox_b_325180.html\">Byron Williams: Mormon Paradox<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;In this context, Oaks speaks as a member of the dominant culture who already has the privilege that others are trying to secure.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalbrandingblog.com\/10-ways-to-get-fired-for-building-your-personal-brand\/\">10 Ways to Get Fired For Building Your Personal Brand<\/a> &#8211; Lot of good advice here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/19\/kingston-doesnt-mention-stimulus\/\">Rep. Kingston Doesn\u2019t Mention The Stimulus When Handing Out Stimulus Funds<\/a> &#8211; Again, still, some more, thus demonstrating the demagoguery and hypocrisy of the GOP leadership on this issue.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/55_42\/news\/39605-1.html#\">GOP Launches Strategy to Trip Up Health Bill &#8211; Roll Call<\/a> &#8211; For &#8220;We need time to give the public a chance to figure out what&#8217;s in it and what they don&#8217;t like about it,&#8221; read, &#8220;We need time to scare the American public into acting against their best interests.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/Comal_man_finds_missile_launcher.html\">Man finds missile launcher in Comal County<\/a> &#8211; I find it remarkable that it took as much effort as it did to get someone to take charge of the darned thing. I feel safer!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/ninety_years_of_refrigerators_and_logos.php\">Ninety Years of Refrigerators, and Logos<\/a> &#8211; I love the classic script version, and think it still has traction in a more modern design era. The new one had potential, but really didn&#8217;t end up as anything all that noteworthy (and, if it isn&#8217;t, why bother?).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.posterous.com\/twitter-lists-limitations-bugs-impact-and-bri\">Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance<\/a> &#8211; On the one hand, this sounds like a great idea. On the other hand, yikes, yeah, what I need is a much longer list of people I&#8217;m following.<\/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;. Pieces Of Red State \u2018Send Rock Salt To Snowy Clime, As A Protest\u2019 Plan Falling In Place &#8211; That&#8217;s probably one of the goofier protests I&#8217;ve read about in a long time. PA GOP Replaces \u201cO\u201d In Obama\u2019s Name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-19-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 19 October 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":[3,109,11,80,263,100,12,10,134,17,21,25,47,9,358,16,110,376,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-church-state","category-media-comics","category-media-commercial","category-disney","category-dolts","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-health-care","category-homeland-security","category-job-jollies","category-gay-stuff","category-my-computer","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-religious-zanies","category-taxing-spending","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/being-president-is-about-more-than-just-creating-wealth.html","url_meta":{"origin":16053,"position":0},"title":"Being President is about more than just creating wealth","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-May-12 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"That statement will cause some folks discomfort, because, of course the President should be creating wealth. 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