{"id":16990,"date":"2010-03-29T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-mon-29-mar-2010-440pm.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:16:45","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-mon-29-mar-2010-440pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-mon-29-mar-2010-440pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Mon, 29 Mar 2010, 4:40PM"},"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. mental_floss Blog \u00bb 10 Things You Don\u2019t Know About Starbucks (But Should!)<\/a> – I will drink coffee from Starbucks. Given a choice with another coffee shop, though, I’ll choose the competition, just because.<\/li>\n
  2. Russia bans Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ over fears it fuels rise of far-Right – Telegraph<\/a> – Because banning books always makes them less attractive, less influential, and keeps them out of the hands of those who might be poorly influenced by them.<\/li>\n
  3. 6 Things Men Do To Get Laid That Science Says Turn Women Off | Cracked.com<\/a> – Heh …<\/li>\n
  4. RNC \u201cInvestigating\u201d Party Funds Spent On Bondage-Themed Nightclub<\/a> – Not to mention, who approved the expense report.<\/li>\n
  5. The effects of an extraordinary con<\/a> – When you offer people a life preserver, and they think it’s made of poison, what do you do next?<\/li>\n
  6. Suspected terrorists charged after Midwest raids<\/a> – Money graf: “Will the Cheneys demand that they not be tried in civilian courts? Will Rudy Giuliani insist that it’s too dangerous to detain the suspects on American soil? With a ninth member of the radical group still at large, will various Fox News personalities call on the president to torture the other eight for information before he\/she can do something dangerous?” And if not, why not? Certainly not because these are white, ostensibly Christian, terrorists, right?<\/li>\n
  7. Denver 1961 \u00ab DenverInfill Blog<\/a> – Great picture of downtown Denver back around when I was born, and before the dark years when Denver became a “Redevelop at All Costs” town.<\/li>\n
  8. Let’s Ask Again, Is The Right Still “Proud To Be a Right-Wing Extremist”?<\/a> – I wonder if the militia folks arrested will be calling the Liberty Counsel …<\/li>\n
  9. Public School Choir Sings Overtly Religious Song and Pays the Price For it<\/a> – I applaud the parents involved in this. The settlement is quite reasonable, and the message has certainly been sent that this is not appropriate material for school. For church, fine — but school is not (really, truly) church.<\/li>\n
  10. Netflix streaming on the Wii = WIN<\/a> – Hmmmmm …<\/li>\n
  11. Yesterland Presents an Urban Legend: Swan and Dolphin Reversed?<\/a> – To be honest, I’d never heard this, nor thought of it. But I will take a much closer look when I’m there next time.<\/li>\n
  12. Science! – SMBC March 29, 2010<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. AFA’s Fischer Hopes Americans Will Violently Revolt Against the “Tyranny of a Repressive Central Government”<\/a> – Today’s THRILLING installment of HYPERBOLE-WATCH 2010!<\/li>\n
  14. RNC raises money for Hannity<\/a> – Fox News and the GOP get ever more into each others’ pants.<\/li>\n
  15. Recess appointments and the economy<\/a> – I’m sure there are all these wonderful reasons for letting Senators obstruct nominations, and I’m pretty sure none of them were to let the Senators blackmail the President over matters unrelated to the nominees at hand. These folks weren’t held back because they were radicals or unqualified or something — they were held back to coerce the Obama Administration to do something. Truly statesmanlike, Senator Kyl.<\/li>\n
  16. Unaware of the contradiction<\/a> – More on “Get the government off my back, except for that money they keep sending me each month” Tea Party movement …<\/li>\n
  17. Crocodile tears<\/a> – “Recess appointments for me, but not for thee.” So say the GOP.<\/li>\n
  18. RNC spent $1946.25 at sex-themed nightclub Voyeur West Hollywood.<\/a> – I’m not surprised by the spending per se (the GOP leadership certainly has no market on sexual purity, for all their rhetoric), but that it actually got expensed and thus filed with the FEC. Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  19. DeMint Claims That Republican Senators Just Wanted \u2018Some Debate And A Vote\u2019 On Obama\u2019s Nominees<\/a> – Jim DeMint, lying about GOP obstruction of appointees? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.<\/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 …. mental_floss Blog \u00bb 10 Things You Don\u2019t Know About Starbucks (But Should!) – I will drink coffee from Starbucks. Given a choice with another coffee shop, though, I’ll choose the competition, just because. Russia bans Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ over … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Mon, 29 Mar 2010, 4:40PM”<\/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":[722,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2756,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/25\/and_the_chain_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":16990,"position":0},"title":"And the chain will set you free","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Sep-02 9:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Indepedent coffee houses often tremble and protest when Starbucks, like the Star Wars Empire, moves into town. 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