{"id":16439,"date":"2009-12-18T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-18T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:00:30","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 18 December 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:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2009\/12\/crank_magnetism_strikes_again.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Crank magnetism strikes again : Respectful Insolence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/12\/dan_obannon_1946-2009.php\">Dan O&#8217;Bannon, 1946-2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/webecoist\/~3\/FYz_rJotBXk\/\">Plight of the Polar Bear in 32 Pictures<\/a> &#8211; A bit anthropomorphic \/ cutesy for my taste, but &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/xx27YuGvZp4\/\">Very Cool: World\u2019s Largest Spherical Photo (18-Gigapixel Awesomeness)<\/a> &#8211; Cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/18\/main-legislator-health-care\/\">Maine state legislator leaves GOP over health care reform obstructionism.: Alex Seitz-Wald<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/18\/mccain-hypocrisy-franken\/\">Flashback: McCain Refused To Grant 30 Seconds Of Time During Iraq War Debate<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Remark cutoffs for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/18\/demint-good-faith\/\">DeMint Laughably Claims Republicans Have Been Acting In \u2018Good Faith\u2019 To  Improve Health Care Reform<\/a> &#8211; Maybe he things &#8220;in good faith&#8221; means &#8220;like good, faithful Christians, unlike all those socialist atheists who are fighting for affordable health care for the uncovered.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/18\/weiner-sanders-senate-bill\/\">Single-Payer Advocates Anthony Weiner And Bernie Sanders Argue The Benefits Of Passing Senate Bill: Faiz Shakir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/18\/oreilly-ingraham-kool-aid\/\">O\u2019Reilly to Ingraham: \u2018You are a blind ideologue\u2019 and a \u2018Kool-Aid drinker.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Crikey &#8212; when you get dressed down by Bill O&#8217;Reilly, of all people, for being a blind right-wing ideologue who&#8217;s swilling the Kool-aid &#8230; that&#8217;s got to give you pause.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/17\/tea-party-plane\/\">Tea Party hires a plane with 100-foot banner reading \u2018OBAMA STOP DESTROYING  OUR COUNTRY\u2019 to fly over DC.<\/a> &#8211; Because nothing says &#8220;An evil socialist Marxist Kenyan is destroying our nation and our liberties&#8221; better than that you can hire a plane to fly over the capital calling on the President to stop destroying the country. Got it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/IOLo3Bt0V1w\/lawyer_from_far-right_group_picked_for_key_legal-a.php\">Lawyer From Far-Right Group Picked For Key Legal-Aid Post: Zachary Roth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/A2frZlo7e4o\/rnc_mum_on_treasurer_who_played_down_stalking_alle.php\">RNC Mum On Treasurer Who Played Down Stalking Allegations: Zachary Roth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/kSzN9gHuK-g\/sec_battered_by_madoff_yet_to_implement_many_recom.php\">SEC, Battered By Madoff, Yet To Implement Many Recommendations For Improvement<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not clear that government will ever respond adequately to these sorts of failures, but they most certainly never will if we don&#8217;t keep insisting on it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/houston-will-fall-under-judgment-electing-gay-mayor\">Houston Will Fall Under Judgment For Electing a Gay Mayor<\/a> &#8211; Maybe it will be judged less backwards, less hateful, and less theocratic.  One can but pray.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/bauer-suddenly-concerned-about-hate-crimes\">Bauer Suddenly Concerned About Hate Crimes<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Hate law protection for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygifblog.com\/2009\/12\/how-to-avoid-camera-loss.html#\">* Your daily gif blog *: How To Avoid Camera Loss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Makeuseof\/~3\/-52W4Fc7VhM\/\">Two Sites To Instantly Convert Your Images To Text<\/a> &#8211; Man, if I could take this back in time thirty years, I would be KING!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/damncoolpics.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/bees-make-honey-in-jar.html\">Bees Make Honey in Jar: noreply@blogger.com (Damn Cool Pics)<\/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;. Crank magnetism strikes again : Respectful Insolence Dan O&#8217;Bannon, 1946-2009 Plight of the Polar Bear in 32 Pictures &#8211; A bit anthropomorphic \/ cutesy for my taste, but &#8230; Very Cool: World\u2019s Largest Spherical Photo (18-Gigapixel Awesomeness) &#8211; Cool. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 18 December 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-16439","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":206,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/29\/so_uncool.html","url_meta":{"origin":16439,"position":0},"title":"So uncool","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-May-03 6:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Katherine insists that she is not cool. 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