{"id":16850,"date":"2010-03-05T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-5-mar-2010-700pm.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:42:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-fri-5-mar-2010-700pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-5-mar-2010-700pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 5 Mar 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. They still don’t know what Medicare is<\/a> – Still more “keep the government’s hands off of Medicare!” silliness.<\/li>\n
  2. McCain slips a little further from seriousness: Steve Benen<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Matthew Yglesias \u00bb Pentagon Shooting<\/a> – A fine (and backhandedly positive) comment about how the nation doesn’t freak out when it’s a non-Muslim killer going on the rampage. “Wild overreactions and wholesale reconfigurations of the constitution, of US foreign policy, or of daily life are considered off the table by definition. And rightly so!” If only we were so relatively rational about the other cases.<\/li>\n
  4. Sony wants to patent ‘feature erosion’ in game demos, illustrates the idea vividly<\/a> – It seems to me that, rather than feeling an urge to pony up and buy the game, instead it would leave me feeling more and more frustrated against it, making me less likely to buy.<\/li>\n
  5. What Would You Do For $5?<\/a> – That’s actually really clever. I’ll be curious to see how it does.<\/li>\n
  6. What Ten C-17 Cargo Planes the Military Doesn’t Want Would Buy Us : Mike the Mad Biologist<\/a> – But … but … the JOBS …! Against terrorists! And … and … ACORN!<\/li>\n
  7. ‘Lone wolf’ anti-government extremist opens fire at the Pentagon. But let’s not call it terrorism.: David Neiwert<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. IHOP ad from 1969 will melt your brain<\/a> – I’m sure some ad exec sold this to IHOP with the pitch, “In the future, ALL commercials will look like this!”<\/li>\n
  9. What\u2019s the Harm? Answer: Pentagon Gunman was a 9\/11 Truther<\/a> – The truth will prevail — but it won’t necessarily prevail without blood, toil, tears and sweat. Not everyone who believes something screwy is going to go homicidal — but certainly the sort of folks we see go on these homicidal rampages (organized or not) believe something screwy.<\/li>\n
  10. The full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com<\/a> – So I guess one has to ask — “Does Wolf Blitzer still beat his wife? Let’s examine both sides of that allegation …”<\/li>\n
  11. This Is What Happens When The Religious Right Takes Over Your State<\/a> – Nice. “Not only are we not going to ensure we don’t discriminate against them, we’re going to make sure that nobody else protects them from discrimination, either.” Time to break out the “Virginia is for Haters” bumper stickers again, sadly.<\/li>\n
  12. AFA’s Bryan Fischer Explains That’s He’s The Reasonable One: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Boulder Catholic school denies preschooler with lesbian parents – The Denver Post<\/a> – Because, you know, Jesus had the Apostles do background checks on all those children he suffered to come unto Him, right? Nice job, SHJ — what could have been a teachable moment … has become a teachable moment, only with a pretty obnoxious lesson.<\/li>\n
  14. 6 Historic Acts of Revenge That Put ‘Kill Bill’ to Shame | Cracked.com<\/a> – Boy, haven’t you ever just wanted to be able to do so something like these folks did?<\/li>\n
  15. Tourist slammed over breaking into protected Maori site<\/a> – The only positive thing I can say about this story of asshattery is thank God it wasn’t an American (this time).<\/li>\n
  16. Pam’s House Blend:: Delusional Collusion – Roy Ashburn’s closet was protected by newspapers, local gays<\/a> – I concur with George — people’s private lives are their private lives — but when they make a point of hypocritically delving into the private lives of others to condemn them for what they do themselves … they are fair game.<\/li>\n
  17. Arizonans flush with anger over loss of rest stops – The Denver Post<\/a> – Hey, Arizona voters — just remember that next time some pol tells you that “government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”<\/li>\n
  18. Wisconsin bike Trek sues Marin wine Trek<\/a> – And, for a brief moment, sanity prevails …<\/li>\n
  19. Late Night Music Club – Happy Birthday Antonio Vivaldi<\/a> – Happy Birthday, Antonio – a man for Four Seasons …<\/li>\n
  20. Greg Lewis: Luntz inadvertently shows why Fox News prefers to call reconciliation the “nuclear option”<\/a> – Words mean things. And notice which side usually seems to be the one to use violent, aggressive, “nuclear” words in politics.<\/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 …. They still don’t know what Medicare is – Still more “keep the government’s hands off of Medicare!” silliness. McCain slips a little further from seriousness: Steve Benen Matthew Yglesias \u00bb Pentagon Shooting – A fine (and backhandedly positive) comment … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Fri, 5 Mar 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":[80,81,12,22,17,79,25,42,358,16,26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-commercial","category-elections-2010","category-fourth-estate","category-gaming","category-homeland-security","category-media-intellectual-property","category-gay-stuff","category-media-music","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-travel","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31707,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age-is-not-a-good-idea.html","url_meta":{"origin":16850,"position":0},"title":"Raising the Medicare eligibility age is not a good idea","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Dec-12 10:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Largely because it means the folks who most need Medicare at 65 won't have it. 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