{"id":16132,"date":"2009-11-04T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-04-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T00:00:26","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-04-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-04-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 04 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:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/local\/colorado.14th.street.2.1291078.html\">Denver&#8217;s 14th Street To Get Millions For Makeover &#8211; cbs4denver.com<\/a> &#8211; Sweet.  14th Street is a bit of an unfriendly dump at the moment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/04\/creigh-deeds-campaign\/\">Creigh Deeds Failed To Run As A Progressive<\/a> &#8211; The Dems do have to worry some about drinking the wing&#8217;s Kool-Aid (a lesson the GOP has not yet figured out), but they also need to figure out their base, and what&#8217;s going to get people out to vote.  While being sincere in their beliefs, of course.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-britbanks4-2009nov04,0,7128504.story\">Britain is forcing breakups of bailed-out major banks &#8212; latimes.com<\/a> &#8211; This will be very difficult to do in the US.  Sure, one can plausibly make the argument that the economies of scale make mega-banks more efficent, but they clearly also create too many single points of economic failure and too many areas where undue risk-taking can occur unseen.  Unfortunately, financial institutions in the US wield too much clout, and the GOP (and not a few Dems) would never go for it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/maine-has-made-matt-barber-proud\">Maine Has Made Matt Barber Proud: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/ViKA5WQFzl0\/washington-domestic-partnership-law-passing-but-outcome-still-uncertain\">Washington domestic partnership law passing but outcome still uncertain<\/a> &#8211; And some good news from Washington state on yesterday&#8217;s elections.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/2K9th8-6lNk\/maine-voters-first-to-lic_n_344812.html\">Maine Voters First To License Medical Pot Shops<\/a> &#8211; Some good news from Maine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/03\/gop-plan-state-regs\/\">GOP health bill: Insurers can ignore \u2018all of the consumer protection laws\u2019  and \u2018restrictions on rate changes.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I mean, all they&#8217;re missing is a clause in there saying that the GOP will send insurance companies buckets of candy every Friday afternoon, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/03\/cnbc-citizenship\/\">CNBC Reporter: Keflezighi\u2019s Marathon Win Was \u2018Empty\u2019 Because He Was An  Immigrant Rather Than U.S.-Born<\/a> &#8211; Like &#8212; WHO THE HELL CARES WHERE HE WAS BORN?  Evidently, some folks do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/03\/louisiana-judge-resigns\/\">Louisiana justice who refused marriage license to interracial couple  resigns.<\/a> &#8211; One more down, how many more to go?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/04\/nyregion\/04district.html\">House Race in New York\u2019s 23rd District Goes to the Democrat &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Well, at least some good news here, as the candidate celebre of the self-destructing Right didn&#8217;t win in a heavily Republican district.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/11\/worst_campaign_website_ever.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Worst. Campaign. Website. Ever. : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; It burns with the light of a thousand insanely stupid suns!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/03\/secret-copyright-treaty-is-the-most-annoying-thing-youll-read-all-year\/\">Secret copyright treaty is the most annoying thing you\u2019ll read all year<\/a> &#8211; Oh, joy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5396462\/att-sues-verizon-over-theres-a-map-for-that-ads\">AT&amp;T Sues Verizon Over &#8220;There&#8217;s A Map For That&#8221; Ads [Lawsuits]: Meg Marco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5395978\/reader-paid-my-t+mobile-bill-saw-some-boobs\">Reader: &#8220;Paid My T-Mobile Bill, Saw Some Boobs&#8221; [It&#8217;s Not A Bug It&#8217;s A  Feature]<\/a> &#8211; I think they may be on to some fiendishly clever idea here &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/MIxvWgh1i-c\/worst_campaign_website_ever.php\">Worst. Campaign. Website. Ever. [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]<\/a> &#8211; Oh my God.  I could only scroll down a page or so before I TORE MY EYES OUT WITH MY COMPUTER MOUSE.  The design, the rhetoric, and the political philosophy are hideous, garish, and surely against the laws of Man and God.<\/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;. Denver&#8217;s 14th Street To Get Millions For Makeover &#8211; cbs4denver.com &#8211; Sweet. 14th Street is a bit of an unfriendly dump at the moment. Creigh Deeds Failed To Run As A Progressive &#8211; The Dems do have to worry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-04-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 04 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-16132","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":22310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/unblogged-bits-mon-22-aug-11-1731-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":16132,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 22-Aug-11 1731)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Aug-11 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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