{"id":16819,"date":"2010-02-26T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-26-feb-2010-700pm.html"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T00:00:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-fri-26-feb-2010-700pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-26-feb-2010-700pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 26 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. Your Moment of Irony : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> – HA! Linguistic Metaphor FAIL!<\/li>\n
  2. Curmudgeonly essay on “Why the Internet Will Fail” from 1995<\/a> – Ah … 1995. Very amusing.<\/li>\n
  3. Sen. Jim Bunning Filibusters Unemployment Extension, Dems Roll Over<\/a> – So the Dems have a perfect opportunity: a crotchey, vain old senator holding up unemployment and COBRA benefits for the unemployed, without direct GOP support … and they make a big noise about it … and then the freaking CAVE? Incredible, disgusting, and …. rrrrrgggg.<\/li>\n
  4. Pawlenty: Let ER’s turn away patients to cut costs<\/a> – But … but … Rush Limbaugh told us that was what ensured we have a national health care system, that everyone could get treatment at the ER! Does Rush know Pawlenty is undercutting his national health care plan?<\/li>\n
  5. Pentagon fesses up to 800 pages’ worth of potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Limbaugh On The Uninsured: \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong With Using A Dead Person\u2019s Teeth?\u201d<\/a> – Rush is an ass.<\/li>\n
  7. Let The Outrage Begin: Atheists Get Meeting With Administration Officials<\/a> – The outrage seems to be that atheists are getting even a fraction of the access that the Religious Right enjoyed during the previous administration. To which they say, “Pish-tosh, the difference is obvious … we’re the GOOD GUYS and those dirty rotten atheists are the BAD GUYS. We DESERVE superior treatment.”<\/li>\n
  8. New helicopter blades not only look cool but are way more quiet<\/a> – wow. That’s pretty cool (in many ways).<\/li>\n
  9. PRECEPTS & RULES FOR CREATING FANTASY<\/a> – These make sense — the personal and visceral, bigger than life but grounded in it.<\/li>\n
  10. Keming<\/a> – WANT!<\/li>\n
  11. 6 Soldiers Who Survived Shit That Would Kill a Terminator | Cracked.com<\/a> – Wow. These are the sorts of things we’d laugh at in disbelief if they were in a novel we were reading.<\/li>\n
  12. Remember That PATRIOT Act Thingy?<\/a> – Unfortunately, the Dems have seriously dropped the ball on this — whether through political cowardice or hypocrisy is unclear.<\/li>\n
  13. Solange Uwimana: No, Rush, Michelle Obama did not call her daughters “fat”<\/a> – Crikey. The man is an ass (and that even goes beyond his facile description of what an adequate health care system looks like at the top of the quote).<\/li>\n
  14. Media Matters staff: Former Bush speechwriter Gerson takes apart Beck’s attacks on Teddy Roosevelt, modern American government<\/a> – I find it appalling that the Conservative movement has slipped so far to the Right that they even consider Teddy Roosevelt a “great enemy of human freedom.”<\/li>\n
  15. The changing image of spam<\/a> – Spam, spam, spam, spam …<\/li>\n
  16. Science TV – SMBC February 26, 2010<\/a> – Look, it’s the Discovery Channel …<\/li>\n
  17. R-71 Backers To SCOTUS: Violent Homosfascists Are Going To Beat Us Up<\/a> – “Yeah! We need protection! We need — we need — a hate crime bill! Um, wait …”<\/li>\n
  18. An illustrative success<\/a> – Money graf: “But if the goal was to air out the various approaches to health care reform, in a candid and transparent way, and realize once and for all that bipartisan compromise is quite literally impossible with an intractable minority that will settle for nothing but failure, I’d call the summit an illustrative success.”<\/li>\n
  19. Intel bill pulled over controversial added interrogation provision – TheHill.com<\/a> – The GOP implicit defense of torture and assault by intelligence agents is disgusting.<\/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 …. Your Moment of Irony : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – HA! Linguistic Metaphor FAIL! Curmudgeonly essay on “Why the Internet Will Fail” from 1995 – Ah … 1995. Very amusing. Sen. Jim Bunning Filibusters Unemployment Extension, Dems Roll … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Fri, 26 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_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16819","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":5487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/empty_seat.html","url_meta":{"origin":16819,"position":0},"title":"Empty seat","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Mar-04 10:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado has announced he will not seek reelection this year. 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