{"id":16904,"date":"2010-03-14T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-14-mar-2010-800pm.html"},"modified":"2010-03-14T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sun-14-mar-2010-800pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-14-mar-2010-800pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sun, 14 Mar 2010,  8:00PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/6vGY5XAkl4U\/022852.php\">Instilling some caucus discipline<\/a> &#8211; While the Dems getting a bit more partisan backbone has some attraction, adding more knee-jerk partisanship also has some disadvantages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Co8jaODG1GA\/022850.php\">Two speeds: slow and stop<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s easy to scare the populace about something as fearworthy as health and health care. Finding a rhetorical handle on opposing bank regulation at this point in time is going to be a serious challenge, esp. during an election year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/x4Og4sGSXuQ\/022843.php\">Cover for pro-life Dems?<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s good to see that some Christian leaders &#8212; including those very much opposed to abortion &#8212; are willing to acknowledge (a) the current bill is a reasonable maintenance of the status quo (no matter how one feels about it) of federal support for abortion, and (b) the moral imperative of dealing with the un- and under-insured needs to be kept in mind through all of this, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/lureAKi3MhU\/\">Air Force sergeant discharged under DADT after police see her marriage  license and out her to the military.<\/a> &#8211; Sure sounds like retaliation to me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/15hvxT1yLwc\/447158411\">A gentle reminder<\/a> &#8211; The only upside is that so many clocks in the house now either auto-correct or have a &#8220;DST&#8221; switch to make the change easier.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/QhLcOUfzs4c\/\">Is there anything more beautiful than Arabic calligraphy?<\/a> &#8211; It is very pretty.  The religious avoidance of much  representational art in the Islamic world has led to calligraphy (as well as geometrics) becoming an art form in itself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/0OpLTaIBpg4\/glenn_beck_discovers_springste.php\">Glenn Beck Discovers Springsteen is a Liberal : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; And Reagan liked the song, so he must have been Liberal Marxist Atheist Traitor, too.  Unless it was &#8230; Reagan&#8217;s Evil Twin!  That must be it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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;. Instilling some caucus discipline &#8211; While the Dems getting a bit more partisan backbone has some attraction, adding more knee-jerk partisanship also has some disadvantages. Two speeds: slow and stop &#8211; It&#8217;s easy to scare the populace about something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-14-mar-2010-800pm.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sun, 14 Mar 2010,  8:00PM&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16904","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":133007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/paul-ryan-plays-chicken-with-his-gop-health-insurance-bill.html","url_meta":{"origin":16904,"position":0},"title":"Paul Ryan plays chicken with his GOP health insurance bill","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Mar-17 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Essentially, Ryan is telling conservative voting blocs in the House (and Senate, indirectly) to pass his proposal or have the consequences be on their heads, but that he won't allow it to be substantially amended.Conservatives in the House, meanwhile, continue to kvetch that the AHCA is \"Obamacare Lite\" and contains\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":128579,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/rt-marmel-heres-how-dems-lose-900-seats-since-2008-elections-because-there-are-no-off-year-elections.html","url_meta":{"origin":16904,"position":1},"title":"RT @Marmel Here&#8217;s how Dems lose 900 seats since 2008 elections.BECAUSE THERE ARE NO OFF YEAR ELECTIONS","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Nov-15 10:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @Marmel Here's how Dems lose 900 seats since 2008 elections. 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