{"id":17416,"date":"2010-05-20T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/unblogged-bits-thu-20-may-10-1400-2.html"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:00:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-20-may-10-1400-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/unblogged-bits-thu-20-may-10-1400-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 20-May-10 1400)"},"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. Rand Paul, The Right Wing, and the Republican Establishment<\/a> – The GOP are riding the tiger here …<\/li>\n
  2. Exclusive: DeMint Says He Disagrees With Rand Paul On Civil Rights, Needs To \u2018Talk To Rand About His Positions\u2019<\/a> – “Andray, ixnay on the Ivilcay Ightsray!”<\/li>\n
  3. BP’s “Rules” Prevent Journalists From Touring Gulf Coast Damage<\/a> – It’s torches and pitchforks time, kids. I’m not sure whether I’m more upset about BP acting this arrogant or the Coast Guard enabling them. Jeez.<\/li>\n
  4. 29 Awe-inspiring Landscape Photos of China<\/a> – Gorgeous.<\/li>\n
  5. Announcing Google TV<\/a> – Well, this is going to be interesting.<\/li>\n
  6. Texting During Meetings is Definitely Noticed, Seen as Rude [Office Culture]<\/a> – Most meetings I’m in that are “serious” we have a “cell phones in the middle of the table” rule. You can always tell when a week of meetings is wearing folks out by how that rule breaks down.<\/li>\n
  7. Walking on the wild side: Photographer’s stunning photos up close with nature’s most dangerous animals | Mail Online<\/a> – nice shots<\/li>\n
  8. 13 Albino Animals: Pics, Videos, Links, News<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Can we stop the app-counting madness, please?<\/a> – I think what people want to know is, “Will I be able to do what I want?” Above a certain number, the answer is “most probably” and the rest is nonsense. It’s like how many gas stations do you need in a town? Enough to provide competition and convenience; more than that is a waste.<\/li>\n
  10. Biodiesel from sewage sludge within pennies a gallon of being competitive<\/a> – Cool!<\/li>\n
  11. 20 May is \u201cEverybody Draw Muhammad\u201d day: George<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Of all the pols to attempt a comeback<\/a> – Jeez. These days it seem to be de rigeur for a GOP pol to go through a sex scandal in order to continue their career.<\/li>\n
  13. Ben Nelson is unfamiliar with ATM fees because he\u2019s never used an ATM.<\/a> – Reminds me of George H. W. Bush not knowing the price of milk because he never bought any of his own.<\/li>\n
  14. Barber: “Solicitor Kagan, Do You Identify as a Lesbian?”<\/a> – Matt Barber presents his case of WHY WE NEED TO KNOW IF KAGAN IS GAY (even though it’s denied from various sources). He doesn’t do so convincingly, but I have to wonder whether the whole KAGAN IS A CLOSET GAY thing is a red herring, giving folks like Barber an opportunity to make a case as to why THE EVIL GAYS are nasty, unnatural, untrustworthy, and shouldn’t ever be considered for a respectable job like this.<\/li>\n
  15. Progressive Texas Board Of Education Candidates Promise To Undo Textbook Changes<\/a> – Well, that’s hopeful.<\/li>\n
  16. The truth about Glenn Beck’s TV ratings | Media Matters for America<\/a> – Couldn’t happen to a not-nicer guy.<\/li>\n
  17. Rand Paul, the Civil Rights Act, and ‘the hard part’ of ‘freedom’<\/a> – By Rand Paul's train of thought ("Does the owner of the restaurant own his own restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?"), it's not just civil rights public access laws that are indefensible, but health & safety laws as well. After all, it's one thing for the government to ban rats and cockroaches in government-run restaurants (the Senate cafeteria, for example), quite another to tell a private restauranteur that they are closed down until they get rid of their vermin.<\/li>\n
  18. Struggling to ‘compete’<\/a> – Great leadership, Republicans! “But by all appearances, Gordon was wasting his time trying to reach out to the GOP, which is about as interested in compromise as it is in scientific advances and America’s competitive edge.”<\/li>\n
  19. Clean fusion power lecture hosted by Stewart Brand<\/a> – It’s a spectacular dream. Of course, clean fusion is something that’s been “by the end of this decade” for the last four or five of them.<\/li>\n
  20. Vintage ads depicting abused and domesticated women<\/a> – Wow. We’ve come a long way, baby.<\/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 …. Rand Paul, The Right Wing, and the Republican Establishment – The GOP are riding the tiger here … Exclusive: DeMint Says He Disagrees With Rand Paul On Civil Rights, Needs To \u2018Talk To Rand About His Positions\u2019 – “Andray, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 20-May-10 1400)”<\/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-17416","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":27878,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/stay-classy-rand-paul.html","url_meta":{"origin":17416,"position":0},"title":"Stay classy, Rand Paul!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-May-12 2:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Whilst in Des Moines, Paul was speaking at the the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner. 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Again?","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rand_fb_share_image1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rand_fb_share_image1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rand_fb_share_image1.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rand_fb_share_image1.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/rand_fb_share_image1.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":128454,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/27\/rand-paul-is-a-dolt-albert-einstein-said-so.html","url_meta":{"origin":17416,"position":2},"title":"Rand Paul is a Dolt (Albert Einstein said so!)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Oct-15 11:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, Albert Einstein said \"Anyone who doesn\u2019t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.\"(Well, more or less. See http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2014\/04\/15\/large-truth\/ for more information.)Rand Paul seems to think that it's \"pedantry\" that a quote that \"everyone know\" came from someone famous isn't actually believe to have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/pat-downs-privilege-and-posturing.html","url_meta":{"origin":17416,"position":3},"title":"Pat-Downs, Privilege, and Posturing","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Jan-12 9:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, despite the hilarity, the whole \"Rand Paul was detained by the TSA\" story sounded just too good to be true. 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