{"id":16570,"date":"2010-01-23T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:28:53","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 23 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:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/hope-less.html\">Hope Less<\/a> &#8211; Compassionate conservatives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/hawaii-senate-approves-civil-unions.html\">Hawaii Senate Approves Civil Unions: Joe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/qvkO35cFdy8\/garmin-voice-studio-lets-you-create-custom-voices-for-your-gps-device\">Garmin Voice Studio Lets You Create Custom Voices for Your GPS Device [Downloads]<\/a> &#8211; I am so trying this out &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/23\/bauer-stray\/\">SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov\u2019t help to \u2018stray animals\u2019 who  \u2018breed\u2019 because they don\u2019t know better.<\/a> &#8211; Ah, such compassionate conservatism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/22\/AR2010012204216.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">David Plouffe &#8211; November doesn&#8217;t need to be a nightmare for Democrats &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;No bedwetting.&#8221;  Best advice I&#8217;ve heard for the Dems all day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Inquisitr\/~3\/Xyx1UAunMKs\/\">Gross: The \u2018lip window\u2019 body modification<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; no.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/22\/corporations-public-financing\/\">Corporations Speak Out Against SCOTUS Ruling, Call On Congress To Approve Public Financing Of Campaigns: Zaid Jilani<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/-0z0uWGsplk\/oreilly-drops-ebook.html\">O&#8217;Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales<\/a> &#8211; Look at it this way &#8212; would you buy more books if they had a ball and chain tied to them, or fewer?  It&#8217;s kind of a &#8220;duh&#8221; question, but the DRM forces keep trying to argue that the answer is &#8220;more.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/RZtvXqOlea8\/replace-your-lost-cellphone-charger-for-free\">Replace Your Lost Cellphone Charger for Free [Tricks Of The Trade]<\/a> &#8211; Marginally dishonest, but because they appear to be &#8220;Ubiquitous in Shadow&#8221; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1271\">01\/20\/10 PHD comic: &#8216;63% of internet readers will like this comic&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; Amen!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/failbooking.com\/2010\/01\/22\/funny-facebook-fails-cougar-alert\/\">Just wait until she tells you which one of your buddies she\u2019s dating!<\/a> &#8211; Facebook = (occasionally) TMI.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/owl-in-flight.html\">Owl in flight<\/a> &#8211; Too &#8230; cool &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/CoolTools\/~3\/tmyczMY3f_0\/004161.php\">Google Apps Mail<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d love it if our company moved onto Google Apps mail.  I was part of a pilot for the company experimenting with it, vs. Outlook\/Exchange.  And I&#8217;m still working that way, even though the interface between GMail and Exchange is far from seamless.  That said &#8230; price-wise, our internal IT services + Exchange were cheaper than Google Apps mail.  Ah, well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/21\/steve-doocy-on-us-militar_n_431672.html\">Steve Doocy On U.S. Military Bible Rifles: The Terrorists &#8216;Started It&#8217; (VIDEO)<\/a> &#8211; So if the terrorists do it, it&#8217;s okay for us to do it back.  And that makes us better than them because &#8230; oh, right, because we&#8217;re ON JESUS&#8217; SIDE.  Got it.<\/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;. Hope Less &#8211; Compassionate conservatives. Hawaii Senate Approves Civil Unions: Joe Garmin Voice Studio Lets You Create Custom Voices for Your GPS Device [Downloads] &#8211; I am so trying this out &#8230; SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-january-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 23 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_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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32258,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/remember-when-they-used-to-talk-about-compassionate-conservatism.html","url_meta":{"origin":16570,"position":0},"title":"Remember when they used to talk about &quot;Compassionate Conservatism&quot;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Jan-13 11:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember when they used to talk about \"Compassionate Conservatism\"?Bobby Jindal's state government in Louisiana will end Medicaid hospice care service for terminally ill poor patients. \u00a0The intent, of course, is the Great Holy Cause of Cutting Spending -- though it's likely that a number of those folks will end up\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":133073,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/cutting-meals-on-wheels-is-compassionate-to-taxpayers.html","url_meta":{"origin":16570,"position":1},"title":"Cutting &quot;Meals on Wheels&quot; is compassionate &#8230; to taxpayers","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Mar-17 10:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really, that's the argument the Trump Administration is using to support proposed massive cuts in federal funding to programs like \"Meals on Wheels\" and Head Start. 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