{"id":16164,"date":"2009-11-09T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-09-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-09T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-09-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-09-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 09 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:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/09\/geithner-bank-tax\/\">Why Is Geithner Dead Set Against A Financial Transactions Tax?: Pat G.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/11\/many-previously-pro-choice-dems-voted.html\">Many Previously Pro-Choice Dems Voted for Stupak Amendment: noreply@blogger.com (Nate Silver)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.seriouseats.com\/~r\/seriouseatsfeaturesvideos\/~3\/zyPcs1RfG7A\/what-a-47221-lunch-looks-like-nellos-abramovich.html\">What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like<\/a> &#8211; Well, it&#8217;s pretty easy when 95% of it is over-priced wine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/cqvYyaYZrsY\/200911060044\">Terry Krepel: WND&#8217;s incredibly lame non-walk-back of Corsi&#8217;s false claim<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Is WND so stubborn and\/or ethically deficient that it cannot publish a simple, honest correction of an obviously false statement? It appears so.&#8221;  Well, frickin&#8217; duh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/08\/lieberman-filibuster-public\/\">Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster House Bill: The Public Option Is  \u2018Unnecessary\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Joe seems much more interested in making headlines  than in being true to anything he said before, oh, say, 5 years ago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/08\/palin-death-panels\/\">Palin gives a lackluster speech in Wisconsin, frequently uses \u2018bogus\u2019 or  \u2018awesome\u2019 to discuss weighty topics.<\/a> &#8211; Alas, Palin is too quickly goofing herself into deserved obscurity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/08\/cantor-limbaugh-hitler\/\">Cantor Respects Limbaugh\u2019s \u2018Conservative Voice,\u2019 But Rejects His Use Of  Hitler Comparisons<\/a> &#8211; Praising with faint damns.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/07\/gingrich-founding-fathers\/\">Gingrich: The Founding Fathers would be \u2018very severe critics\u2019 of Obama if  they were alive today.<\/a> &#8211; Crikey, Newt.  You really think that if the Founders returned today, they&#8217;d be all pissed off over religion? Really?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/sunday-roundup-the-stakes\/\">Sunday Roundup: The Stakes<\/a> &#8211; Looking at the House vote for the Health bill.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/creationists-boost-islamic-fundamentalists-turkey\">Creationists boost Islamic Fundamentalists in Turkey<\/a> &#8211; [Insert sound of grinding teeth here.]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/11\/noachian_flood_reconstructed.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Noachian Flood Reconstructed : Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog<\/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;. Why Is Geithner Dead Set Against A Financial Transactions Tax?: Pat G. Many Previously Pro-Choice Dems Voted for Stupak Amendment: noreply@blogger.com (Nate Silver) What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like &#8211; Well, it&#8217;s pretty easy when 95% of it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-09-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 09 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":{"_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-16164","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":137203,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/what-do-false-rape-accusations-look-like.html","url_meta":{"origin":16164,"position":0},"title":"What do false rape accusations look like","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Sep-18 12:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"This is, of course, a series of generalized conclusions based on actual documented cases of false rape accusation, and cannot, per se, dictate which accusations are true and which are false. 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