{"id":16781,"date":"2010-02-21T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-21-feb-2010-700pm.html"},"modified":"2010-02-21T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:00:23","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sun-21-feb-2010-700pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-21-feb-2010-700pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sun, 21 Feb 2010, 7:00PM"},"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. The sad teleprompter joke<\/a> – It’s the Big Lie — repeat it often enough, and people will believe it (and the spin given with it).<\/li>\n
  2. Torture-memo authors avoid sanctions<\/a> – Unfortunate.<\/li>\n
  3. Do Toy Guns Turn Kids into Killers?<\/a> – Neither toy guns nor pretending to be shooting with fingers and sticks turn kids into killers. At least it didn’t happen to me and my friends.<\/li>\n
  4. The 1956 Republican Party Platform : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> – A delightful (and terrifying) demonstration of how the GOP (and the country) have lurched far to the Right. Any Republican (let alone a Democrat) who tried to run on these principles today would be labeled a tree-hugging socialist.<\/li>\n
  5. PERRspectives: The Bush 400<\/a> – I don’t mind people earning money, even vast sums of it. I do think that provides a social obligation to provide a disproportionate part of that money back to the commonwealth.<\/li>\n
  6. Why should we believe the earth is round, just because scientists say so?<\/a> – Look out! It’s Globalgate!<\/li>\n
  7. Annals of global warming: Columbia Glacier, Alaska (by James Blalog)<\/a> – The Denialists will no doubt blame ACORN or something, hand-wave it aside, and go along their merry way toward a warmer future.<\/li>\n
  8. Does Tiger Woods Owe You An Apology?<\/a> – That’s pretty much the size of it.<\/li>\n
  9. Health Insurance Premiums Jump \u2013 and Remind Us Why We Need Reform<\/a> – The for-profit insurance industry loves thumbing its nose as its “customers” — and gets away with it 99% of the time.<\/li>\n
  10. Pam’s House Blend:: Utah Bill Equates Miscarriages With Criminal Homicide- REALLY.<\/a> – So if you’ve have a miscarriage and it’s charged that it happened because you were “reckless” (which means, I suppose, whatever the DA and judge and jury decide it means), you can be tossed in jail. Wonderful.<\/li>\n
  11. Life before Google<\/a> – So true.<\/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 …. The sad teleprompter joke – It’s the Big Lie — repeat it often enough, and people will believe it (and the spin given with it). Torture-memo authors avoid sanctions – Unfortunate. Do Toy Guns Turn Kids into Killers? – … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Sun, 21 Feb 2010, 7:00PM”<\/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-16781","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":1574,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/08\/zero_sense_er_t.html","url_meta":{"origin":16781,"position":0},"title":"Zero sense, er, tolerance","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Dec-01 12:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is True does a good job of highlighting various abuses of \"Zero Tolerance\" policies at schools. 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