{"id":17455,"date":"2010-05-24T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-may-10-2000.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:51:11","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-24-may-10-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-may-10-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 24-May-10 2000)"},"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\/6IY8kJmSxwo\/\">FoxNews.com edits out applause during Obama\u2019s West Point speech.<\/a> &#8211; Classy, Fox!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/9oaq7ADOBf4\/\">Conservatives, Including Rand Paul, Disagree With Palin\u2019s Claim That Maddow  Asked Paul \u2018Gotcha\u2019 Questions<\/a> &#8211; What? Criticizing Palin? &#8220;Too often she has become the spokesperson for cultural resentments. Understandably scarred by the 2008 campaign, she is on a quest to clear her name by pounding the media at every turn. They are always to blame \u2014 even when, as in the case of Rand Paul, they are not actually to blame.&#8221; Inconceivable!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/PjEn02jLFTY\/023953.php\">Did Vaughn Ward think no one would notice?<\/a> &#8211; A more important question: will plagiarism (and from that source) at all impact his chances of winning in Idaho?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/9eaFrQgRq5s\/\">Steele Sides With Israeli Settlers At Central Park Rally: Obama Has \u2018Left  Israel To Fend For Herself\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Sadly, this meeting will probably shore up support for Steele within the GOP.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/qyDXLkOQIDY\/mark-souder-you-broke-my-heart\">Mark Souder, You Broke My Heart<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;Enough with dividing the world between moral, family-loving Christians on the one side and supposedly permissive, corrupt, family-destroying secularists on the other.  Enough with pretending that personal virtue is connected with political creeds. Enough with condemning your adversaries, sometimes viciously, and then insisting upon understanding after the failures of someone on your own side become known to the world. And enough with claiming that support for gay rights and gay marriage is synonymous with opposition to family values and sexual responsibility.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/SHTioX8Onco\/index.php\">Roger Zelazny\u2019s The Chronicles of Amber<\/a> &#8211; Just what I need &#8212; another read-thru I very much want to follow.  \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/xZQfW4p2HQo\/american-food-drink-spending-by-city.html\">Does Your City Spend A Lot On Eating?<\/a> &#8211; We&#8217;re above average here in Denver, but I&#8217;m gratified to see we&#8217;re a lot more on the &#8220;groceries&#8221; than &#8220;dining out&#8221; side.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ZvLzXVz3JMM\/news193921583.html\">Do we clamp the umbilical cord too soon?<\/a> &#8211; Fascinating info.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/nMOXML7q8SM\/lab-on-a-chip-detects-actual-food-allergies.ars\">Lab-on-a-chip detects actual food allergies<\/a> &#8211; Very cool, and potentially lifesaving.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/FjMBlAF6cj0\/facebooks-zuckeberg-admits-mistakes-promises-privacy-fixes.ars\">Facebook&#8217;s Zuckerberg admits mistakes, promises privacy fixes<\/a> &#8211; Actions will speak louder than words.<\/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;. FoxNews.com edits out applause during Obama\u2019s West Point speech. &#8211; Classy, Fox! Conservatives, Including Rand Paul, Disagree With Palin\u2019s Claim That Maddow Asked Paul \u2018Gotcha\u2019 Questions &#8211; What? Criticizing Palin? &#8220;Too often she has become the spokesperson for cultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-may-10-2000.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Mon. 24-May-10 2000)&#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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136413,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/13\/rand-paul-always-puts-on-a-good-show.html","url_meta":{"origin":17455,"position":0},"title":"Rand Paul always puts on a good show","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 13-May-18 12:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/995195094197137408 @politico Is this where Rand Paul becomes all maverick and defiant and independent and libertarian and publicity-receiving before he turns around and votes with the rest of the GOP? 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Besides trying to urge a \"big tent\" for the GOP (by which he meant leaving room for his father's supporters as well as Romney supporters), he offered up this little gem:'At the Iowa Faith\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":128454,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/27\/rand-paul-is-a-dolt-albert-einstein-said-so.html","url_meta":{"origin":17455,"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. 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