{"id":16467,"date":"2009-12-25T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-25T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T00:00:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 25 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:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-12-25-n64.html\">On the US Gov&#8217;t &#8220;Going Google&#8221;: Philipp Lenssen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/12\/the_16_worst_christmas_specials_of_all_time.php\">The 16 Worst Christmas Specials of All Time<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s somewhat shocking that the Doctor Who &#8220;Voyage of the Damned&#8221; makes the list &#8212; except that, well, the Doctor promises everyone they&#8217;ll get out safe and, well, most of them don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2009\/12\/24\/holiday-haranguers-religious-right-tells-america-to-celebrate-christmas-its-way-or-get-out\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AUblog+%28The+Wall+of+Separation%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Holiday Haranguers: Religious Right Tells America To Celebrate Christmas Its Way Or Get Out | The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;If Americans\u2019 attitudes toward Christmas are changing, it\u2019s not because of government fiat. &#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/23\/death-panels-imab\/\">In Last-Ditch Effort To Derail Reform, Right Wing Calls Medicare Commission  A \u2018Death Panel\u2019<\/a> &#8211; The Republican Non-Argument:  (1) Health Care Reform will cost tons of money we don&#8217;t have, so it&#8217;s too expensive to support. (2) Efforts to reduce its costs amount to government rationing which means &#8220;death panels.&#8221; (3) We&#8217;d all be better off letting the current insurance system do the job instead, because denying claims and dropping policy holders and rescinding coverage is not &#8220;rationing,&#8221; it&#8217;s &#8220;the free market.&#8221;  All three points are demonstrably false, but that doesn&#8217;t stop the GOP from its ongoing fearmongering.<\/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;. On the US Gov&#8217;t &#8220;Going Google&#8221;: Philipp Lenssen The 16 Worst Christmas Specials of All Time &#8211; It&#8217;s somewhat shocking that the Doctor Who &#8220;Voyage of the Damned&#8221; makes the list &#8212; except that, well, the Doctor promises everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 25 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-16467","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":23845,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/doctor-who-christmas-special-trailer.html","url_meta":{"origin":16467,"position":0},"title":"Doctor Who Christmas Special Trailer","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Nov-11 4:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Woot!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doctor Who&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Doctor Who","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-doctor-who"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31388,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/doctor-who-christmas-special-trailer-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":16467,"position":1},"title":"Doctor Who Christmas Special Trailer!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Nov-12 4:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Woot!And there's a minisode prequel to the episode right here:\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/G17_B4uACggReshared post from +Les JenkinsKiller snowmen? 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