{"id":16498,"date":"2010-01-05T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:00:39","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 05 January 2010"},"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\/2009-12-29-n29.html\">Google and Multivac<\/a> &#8211; One of my favorite Asimov shorts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.backblaze.com\/2010\/01\/04\/backblaze-a-finalist-for-a-crunchie\/\">Backblaze a Finalist for a Crunchie<\/a> &#8211; Beauty contests like this are irksome &#8230; but it would be cool to see someone beat MS and Google.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/05\/constitutionality-health-reform\/\">REPORT: Challenges To Constitutionality Of Health Reform Funded By Health Industry Money: Igor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/04\/cheney-wrath-terrorism\/\">Former Bush officials avoid publicly supporting Obama\u2019s policies out of fear of \u2018Cheney\u2019s circle.\u2019: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/04\/limbaugh-hawaii-hospital-union\/\">Limbaugh\u2019s \u2018Dandy\u2019 Health Care Provided By Union Nurses: Ben Armbruster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/04\/bachmann-redefined-tea-gop\/\">Bachmann: GOP should \u2018allow themselves to be re-defined by the tea party  movement.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s exactly what they are doing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/05\/hume-oreilly-woods\/\">Hume Decries Persecution By Critics, Reiterates It Would Be \u2018Magnificent\u2019 To  \u2018Witness\u2019 Tigers Woods\u2019 Conversion<\/a> &#8211; Hume is utterly clueless as to what he&#8217;d done wrong here &#8230; and continues to dig himself in deeper.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/05\/ron-paul-cheney\/\">Ron Paul hits back at Cheney: \u2018He\u2019s caused a lot of trouble\u2019 for the U.S.,  so it\u2019s \u2018best he not be so critical.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Ron Paul isn&#8217;t my favorite of pols, but his iconoclasm is sometimes very refreshing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/america-cursed-god-electing-barack-obama\">America Is Cursed By God For Electing Barack Obama<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;We&#8217;re not gathering to get press or impress anyone, but to pray to God &#8212; which requires we all gather at the Lincoln Memorial on a given day and invite all our congressional and Religious Right pals to join in.&#8221;  Maybe the subject for prayer should be Matthew 6:5-6.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/lisa-miller-disappears-liberty-counsel-silent\">Lisa Miller Disappears, Liberty Counsel Silent<\/a> &#8211; Not surprising.  And I have little doubt there are plenty of Right-wing Christians more than happy to provide her with shelter for a while.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/52930\/quist-defeating-liberals-a-bigger-battle-than-defeating-terrorism\">Quist: Defeating liberals a bigger battle than defeating terrorism \u00ab Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media.<\/a> &#8211; You just know that iif some Democrat said that defeating conservatives was a bigger battle than defeating terrorists, s\/he would be pilloried by the Right for &#8220;politicizing&#8221; the War on Terror and downplaying the dangers of terrorism for poll points.  I don&#8217;t expect to hear any of those folks complaining about Quist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/right-loses-it-over-transgender-appointee\">Right Loses It Over Transgender Appointee: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/bhsraap_dec09\/\">Berkeley High School, race, and AP classes: George<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/its-official-go.php\">It&#8217;s official: Google launches the Nexus One<\/a> &#8211; Before I seriously consider an iPhone, I&#8217;ll definitely be investigating this puppy.<\/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;. Google and Multivac &#8211; One of my favorite Asimov shorts. Backblaze a Finalist for a Crunchie &#8211; Beauty contests like this are irksome &#8230; but it would be cool to see someone beat MS and Google. REPORT: Challenges To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-january-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 05 January 2010&#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-16498","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":28436,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/stephen-colbert-on-the-evil-health-insurance-mandate-penalty-tax-evil-thing.html","url_meta":{"origin":16498,"position":0},"title":"Stephen Colbert on the Evil Health Insurance Mandate Penalty Tax Evil Thing","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Jun-12 5:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Stephen Colbert on the Evil Health Insurance Mandate Penalty Tax Evil ThingThis does seem to be just about the level of rhetoric I've heard from (real) folks declaring DOOOOOM\u00a0over the SCOTUS decision.Reshared post from +The Colbert Report\"If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a\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":27562,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/myths-about-canadas-health-care-system.html","url_meta":{"origin":16498,"position":1},"title":"Myths about Canada&#39;s health care system","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Apr-12 10:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"The folks I know in Canada seem quite happy with the system them have -- and not at all envious of that in the US. 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