{"id":16450,"date":"2009-12-21T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-21-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:00:22","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-21-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-21-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 21 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:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/the_best_and_worst_identities_of_2009.php\">The Best and Worst Identities of 2009: Armin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/14565\/oks-coburn-on-senate-floor-people-ought-to-pray-that-a-senator-cant-make-the-vote-tonight\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend:: OK&#8217;s Coburn On Senate Floor: &#8216;People Ought To Pray&#8217; That A Senator &#8216;Can&#8217;t Make The Vote Tonight&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; Right. Invoke God to strike down someone about to vote for this bill.  Are you that bloody-minded, Sen. Coburn?  Really?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolutionblog\/2009\/12\/hacker_on_health_care.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Hacker on Health Care : EvolutionBlog<\/a> &#8211; The first American assault against the Germans &#8212; Operation Torch in North Africa &#8212; was something of a fiasco, and even included a major defeat for Americans at the Kasserine Pass.  But it was still an effort in the right direction and, despite the losses, blunders, and blood, was a signal change in the war.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/7VQwsEVPd4M\/200912180018\">Matt Gertz: Attention Fox: This is what an actual war on a holiday looks  like<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;Why not expose hate, instead of targeting supposed political correctness?&#8221; None of the answers I come up with for Fox are very pleasant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/hpglucTKwVg\/200912180030\">Eric Boehlert: Breitbart&#8217;s Big Government doesn&#8217;t understand what &#8220;ignored&#8221;  means<\/a> &#8211; Martyrdom! Martyrdom! ACORN!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/zFmrhXFeT_s\/200912180032\">Brian Frederick: Franken v. Lieberman: Too good a story to check out<\/a> &#8211; A very different analysis of this from that on the Right (and chortled over from the Left).<\/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;. The Best and Worst Identities of 2009: Armin Pam&#8217;s House Blend:: OK&#8217;s Coburn On Senate Floor: &#8216;People Ought To Pray&#8217; That A Senator &#8216;Can&#8217;t Make The Vote Tonight&#8217; &#8211; Right. Invoke God to strike down someone about to vote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-21-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 21 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-16450","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":28373,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/because-if-government-works-then-people-might-actually-like-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":16450,"position":0},"title":"Because if government works, then people might actually like it!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Jun-12 1:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Mitch McConnell declares -- as GOP minority leader in the Senate, mind you -- that there will be no more judicial confirmations until after the election, five months from now.On the (very dim) bright side, he appears to be torquing off Republicans, too.'The practice has been used by both parties\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7185,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/12\/lesbians_my_god.html","url_meta":{"origin":16450,"position":1},"title":"Lesbians! 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PvPonline \u00bb Archive \u00bb Mark Waid is Right - In case you thought the Comic Book Biz was all skittles and beer and Bullpen Hijinx ... 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