{"id":16077,"date":"2009-10-23T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-23-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-10-23T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:00:52","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-23-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-23-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 23 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:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/10\/prepaid-providers-locks-your-phone-hands-pockets\">Prepaid Providers Seek to Put Locks On Your Phone and Their Hands In Your  Pocket<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not a free market if they lock you in.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/23\/hagel-gop-irresponsible\/\">Former Sen. Chuck Hagel: GOP is being \u2018irresponsible\u2019 in the health care  debate.<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s noteworthy that he&#8217;s a <b>former<\/b> leader within the Republican party &#8212; another sign of how the party has managed to shove out many of its least extreme members.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/republican-party\/jeb-bush-gop-is-old-white-guy-party-we-cant-just-be-the-party-of-no\/\">Jeb Bush: GOP Is \u201cOld White Guy Party\u201d; \u201cWe Can\u2019t Just Be Party Of No\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  I&#8217;ve never heard Jeb say something more true.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rifqa-bary-face-new-civil-rights-movement-america\">Rifqa Bary: Face of the &#8220;New Civil Rights Movement&#8221; in America?<\/a> &#8211; Stealing children and convincing them their parents are out to kill them is the new civil rights movement?  Wow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/23\/bush-soul\/\">Bush: I regret standing in front of the \u2018Mission Impossible\u2019 banner.: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/right-equal-protection-unequal-protection\">For the Right, Equal Protection = Unequal Protection<\/a> &#8211; But &#8230; but &#8230; I thought lying was a SIN!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/anti-gay-forces-maine-file-suit-run-outrageous-ads\">Anti-Gay Forces In Maine File Suit So They Can Run Outrageous Ads<\/a> &#8211; The nature of the ads they want to run (goofy and despicable as they are) is beside the point &#8212; they want to be exempted from the rules because it&#8217;s incconvenient for them, even though No-on-1 forces don&#8217;t seem to be asking for an exemption.  And, of course, they want the rules lifted long enough to get their ads on the air in time for the election, then they&#8217;ll be off to some other state.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/frWCGaF6jMs\/\">Chart: Movie Trailer Views Vs. Box Office Receipts<\/a> &#8211; Interesting (lack of) correlation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/vhfg0kEUtDE\/\">First Official Look: The A-Team<\/a> &#8211; Not sure it was necessary to turn Liam Neeson into a George Peppard clone &#8212; esp. if your Templeton Peck is going to be a brunette.  Odd.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5388372\/6-things-your-insurance-agent-doesnt-need-to-hear\">6 Things Your Insurance Agent Doesn&#8217;t Need To Hear [Insurance]: Phil Villarreal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/X4z9PIKkJ6c\/leds-throwing.html\">LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype<\/a> &#8211; Unfortunately, this is the sort of article (intereresting, informative, realistic) that some folks will interpret as &#8220;LEDs are bad! They&#8217;re a hoax! Global warming is a conspiracy!&#8221; I just know it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/jalopnik\/full\/~3\/dQh7OEUmRMc\/how-to-swap-a-ford-escort-engine-in-32-seconds\">How To Swap A Ford Escort Engine In 32 Seconds [How To]<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, but would you drive back home in it?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=58115\">Naked Girls Reading<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Steven Padnick enjoys naked girls and reading.&#8221;  Sound excellent, either alone or in a combo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/74w3zPXeAi4\/goldman-sachs-vice-chair-public-must-learn-to-tolerate-the-inequality-of-bonuses\">Goldman Sachs vice chair: &#8220;Public must learn to &#8216;tolerate the inequality&#8217; of  bonuses&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; I think this ranks right up there with &#8220;Well, then let them eat cake!&#8221; as an infuriatingly stupid comment.  I just hope it doesn&#8217;t end the same way &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/ckD9lHl9NHI\/-House-12-15-Votes-Short-on-Medicare-Plus-5-Public-Option\">House 12-15 Votes Short on Medicare Plus 5 Public Option<\/a> &#8211; I keep averting my eyes from these vote estimates &#8230; it can only raise my blood pressure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/5TGCUo7yzAE\/use-your-dishwasher-to-clean-potatoes-for-holiday-meals\">Use Your Dishwasher to Clean Potatoes for Holiday Meals [Clever Uses]<\/a> &#8211; I &#8230; am boggled.  (Notes this for Margie to weigh in on.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/design-milk\/~3\/1d2LlHNa0jE\/\">Heffer Pitcher<\/a> &#8211; Okay, I&#8217;ve never been posh enough to serve milk in a pitcher, and this would be annoying to clean &#8230; but, as Les notes, it&#8217;s the AWESOME.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091022\/ap_on_sc\/us_climate_poll\">Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a> &#8211; I guess the Big Lie does work. Sadly enough.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SociologicalImagesSeeingIsBelieving\/~3\/OhZj_MZcKX8\/\">\u201cWhen You Marry\u201d: 1962 Textbook<\/a> &#8211; Fascinating.<\/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;. Prepaid Providers Seek to Put Locks On Your Phone and Their Hands In Your Pocket &#8211; It&#8217;s not a free market if they lock you in. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel: GOP is being \u2018irresponsible\u2019 in the health care debate. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-23-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 23 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16077","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":129895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/the-end-of-a-gop-dynastic-streak.html","url_meta":{"origin":16077,"position":0},"title":"The end of a GOP dynastic streak","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Feb-16 10:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching Rachel Maddow last night, she pointed out something ... kind of weird: the last GOP presidential ticket to win an election that didn't have either a Bush family member or Richard Nixon in the #1 or #2 slot ... was Herbert Hoover in 1928.That seems weird to me. 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