{"id":16118,"date":"2009-11-01T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-01-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-01T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:00:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-01-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-01-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 01 November 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:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/01\/fns-wallace-limbaugh\/\">Fox\u2019s Chris Wallace Conducts Sycophantic, Softball Interview With Rush Limbaugh: Faiz Shakir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/31\/scozzafava-withdraws\/\">GOP establishment-backed candidate Dede Scozzafava withdraws from NY-23  special election.<\/a> &#8211; As the GOP continues its slide into doctrinal purity and extremism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/31\/lieberman-irony-public-option\/\">Lieberman on his willingness to derail health care reform: \u2018I feel  relevant.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Ah.  It&#8217;s all about &#8220;ME.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/30\/right-wing-fact-check-fail\/\">Right Wing Falsely Asserts Right Wing Boogeymen Bill Ayers And Jeremiah  Wright Visited The White House<\/a> &#8211; Why let the truth get in the way of some faux outrage?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2233839\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">How the AvantGrand, Yamaha&#8217;s new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument. &#8211; By Chris Wilson &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/everything-you-need-know-about-rights-ignorance-about-hate-crimes-laws\">Everything You Need To Know About The Right&#8217;s Ignorance About Hate Crimes  Laws<\/a> &#8211; Regretfully, Pat Robertson&#8217;s association with reality and knowledge thereof began to badly decay a decade or two ago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/focus-family-healthcare-reform-fungibility-and-abortion\">Focus on the Family, Healthcare Reform, Fungibility, and Abortion<\/a> &#8211; Fungibility for me, but not for thee.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/hate-crimes-get-ready-pointless-grandstanding\">Hate Crimes: Get Ready For Pointless Grandstanding<\/a> &#8211; What if you put yourself up for martyrdom and nobody came?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/25-worth-faxes-will-end-obamas-presidency\">$25 Worth of Faxes Will End Obama&#8217;s Presidency!<\/a> &#8211; Do they ever stop and actually LISTEN to what they&#8217;re saying?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/state-eagle-forum-president-becomes-head-texas-gop\">State Eagle Forum President Becomes Head of Texas GOP<\/a> &#8211; I, personally, think we need to be encouraging Texas secession.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2009\/10\/map.jpg\">Plug map.jpg<\/a> &#8211; Talk about useless variations in standards.  I can&#8217;t imagine living somewhere that has multiple incompatible plug types.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=a17276d11cf2576f1797469316cbfeca\">Microsoft Security Essentials rated best free antivirus for Windows<\/a> &#8211; Interesting.  I don&#8217;t really want to get sucked into a security monoculture, but I&#8217;m glad this is here for people to make use of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/nanowrimo-go\/\">NaNoWriMo: Go<\/a> &#8211; One bite at a time! Yo!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xaprb.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/how-to-add-paragraph-spacing-in-google-docs\/\">How to add paragraph spacing in Google Docs at Xaprb<\/a> &#8211; Excellent. Now, why doesn&#8217;t Google Docs make this easier to do, or allow us to share CSS between docs?<\/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;. Fox\u2019s Chris Wallace Conducts Sycophantic, Softball Interview With Rush Limbaugh: Faiz Shakir GOP establishment-backed candidate Dede Scozzafava withdraws from NY-23 special election. &#8211; As the GOP continues its slide into doctrinal purity and extremism. Lieberman on his willingness to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-01-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 01 November 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-16118","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":25323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/ron-paul-and-the-gop-youth-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":16118,"position":0},"title":"Ron Paul and the GOP youth vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-12 11:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul reeled in almost half of the 18-29 age cohort in the New Hampshire GOP primaries. 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