{"id":16769,"date":"2010-02-19T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-19-feb-2010-443pm.html"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:43:52","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-fri-19-feb-2010-443pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-19-feb-2010-443pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 19 Feb 2010, 4:43PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Babbin Jokes About Norquist: I’m Glad He Didn’t Fly That Plane Into An IRS Building (VIDEO)<\/a> – So within 24 hours we can make jokes about some guy killing himself and anyone else who got in his way? All because the IRS was involved? Disgusting.<\/li>\n
  2. Why Google Apps Users Miss Out on Regular Gmail Features\u2014and Some Solutions [Annoyances]<\/a> – I use personal Google and my company’s (eternal pilot) Google experiment. The Contacts problem remains a significant one (as are some bad formatting drug interactions between Google Apps GMail and Exchange, and the lack of some of the features noted above), but it remains a workable solution. And it’s easy to toggle between the accounts on my BB’s GMail.<\/li>\n
  3. Up Glenn Beck’s Nose<\/a> – We won’t mention Rush’s painkiller addiction, of course.<\/li>\n
  4. Denver crowd protests \u2018too big to fail\u2019 Wells Fargo \u00ab Colorado Independent<\/a> – Just down the street from my office (where I’m … not).<\/li>\n
  5. The Escapist : Trope-a-Dope<\/a> – A fascinating look at how being too aware of cliches and tropes can blind us to originality and beauty in expression despite (or in some cases because) of them. Worth reading (and I say that as someone who’s occasionally been jaded in that fashion).<\/li>\n
  6. 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling – The Oatmeal<\/a> – Tempted to buy the poster …<\/li>\n
  7. No plan for you<\/a> – It appears the only thing the GOP has to offer to the HCR debate is, “Let’s start over from scratch.” Right.<\/li>\n
  8. White House to present its own reform bill<\/a> – “In other words, the message to the GOP is simple: you’ll get a chance to contribute, but we’re moving on with or without you.” It’s about damned time.<\/li>\n
  9. Tea Party organizer says she didn\u2019t really want to kill lawmaker: \u2018Nobody had a rope to hang Patty Murray.\u2019<\/a> – “It wasn’t me! Uh … I was misquoted! Uh … it was a joke!” Aren’t those always the excuses they use?<\/li>\n
  10. Rep. Steve King’s Enemies List<\/a> – I had to look up “Grascites” (which is used practically nowhere, but seems to be “Frankfurt School Social Marxists,” whatever the hell those are). More importantly: enemies? Really? Liberals and progressives are not just opponents to the conservatives, but enemies<\/b> (not to mention being effectively the same as Maoists and Stalinists and Gramscites)? The rhetoric continues to heat.<\/li>\n
  11. Pawlenty: Conservatives Need To Be More Like Elin Nordegren<\/a> – Again with the violent imagery from the Right.<\/li>\n
  12. Repealing DADT = Gov’t Establishment of Religion<\/a> – Aside from the unfounded assumption that all military chaplains reject homosexuals being in the military, or that chaplains cannot pastorally support those whose lifestyles they disagree with (because, of course, soldiers in the army never do anything morally incorrect), I am fascinated and disgusted that telling folks of a given religious belief system that their system no longer dictates the government’s actions is somehow discriminating against them. The government doesn’t force everyone to tithe, either, and it allows divorce — is that, too, discrimination against those whose faiths disagree? Silly, if not so hypocritical and hateful.<\/li>\n
  13. Who’s Raising Money For Tea Party Movement?<\/a> – Given their cries for transparency and accusations of government being in bed with big business, this is darkly ironic.<\/li>\n
  14. Keith Thomson: ‘Once a Spy’: What Happens to a Spy with Alzheimer’s?<\/a> – Some interesting questions raised here.<\/li>\n
  15. 5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News | Cracked.com<\/a> – To a large degree, the news media, especially on TV, especially local TV, is nearly worthless. Here’s why.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Babbin Jokes About Norquist: I’m Glad He Didn’t Fly That Plane Into An IRS Building (VIDEO) – So within 24 hours we can make jokes about some guy killing himself and anyone else who got in his way? All … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Fri, 19 Feb 2010, 4:43PM”<\/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-16769","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":14994,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/shifting-from-outlook-to-google-mail-et-al.html","url_meta":{"origin":16769,"position":0},"title":"Shifting from Outlook to Google Mail (et al.)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Jun-09 11:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As noted before, I signed up for a pilot in my company, evaluating GMail, Google Calendar, and Google Apps as potential replacements for Outlook and Office. 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