{"id":17562,"date":"2010-06-08T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/unblogged-bits-tue-8-jun-10-1400.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:25:09","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-8-jun-10-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/unblogged-bits-tue-8-jun-10-1400.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 8-Jun-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. The pictures BP doesn\u2019t want you to see: Round 2.: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Flipped Pieces of Coin, Broken Bottles, Exchanged for Birthright<\/a> – Discussion of the actual effects of the blockade on Gaza. “Israel is justified in preventing arms shipments to Gaza. Israel is in no way morally or ethically justified to debilitate over a million Gazans, most of which are children, in these ways. It is shameful.”<\/li>\n
  3. D-Day Double Standard<\/a> – Let’s face it — Fox “News” is going to be “outraged” over pretty much anything Obama does or does not do, regardless of whether they are consistent with what Dubya did. They are the media outlet for the opposition; that’s their job.<\/li>\n
  4. Janet Porter Goes On The Attack Against The Group That Got Her Fired<\/a> – Wow. Some seriously zany rhetoric from Ms Porter here.<\/li>\n
  5. Cuccinelli\u2019s Legal Brief Attacking Health Reform Cites \u2018Boston Tea Party\u2019<\/a> – Why is it that the folks who are so idolatrous about the Constitution and the Founders tend to be so ill-informed about them?<\/li>\n
  6. Trove of long-lost silent films found in New Zealand<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  7. Hollywood\u2019s one man time-machine\u2026<\/a> – Several more “premake” trailer from the guy who did the “Empire Strikes Back” one I linked to a while ago.<\/li>\n
  8. The 50-year-old posters of Notting Hill Gate Tube\u2026<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  9. Sometimes you’ve got to wonder\u2026are we the baddies?<\/a> – Honestly, sometimes I think we are. Or, at best, we do a poor job of conveying why we are not, given some of the things that we, as individuals or as a government, sometimes do. This is, unfortunately, political poison to even discuss (note that firestorm of conservative protest about Obama being perceived as overly-apologetic), where anything that doesn’t portray us as Shining Angels with Fiery Swords of Righteousness is seen as portraying us as Loathesome Devils. Whether or not we are an “exceptional” country, we have our flaws, and an unwillingness to see them means we can never correct them.<\/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 …. The pictures BP doesn\u2019t want you to see: Round 2.: Amanda Terkel Flipped Pieces of Coin, Broken Bottles, Exchanged for Birthright – Discussion of the actual effects of the blockade on Gaza. “Israel is justified in preventing arms shipments … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 8-Jun-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":{"_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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44053,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/the-geopolitical-topic-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html","url_meta":{"origin":17562,"position":0},"title":"The Geopolitical Topic That Dare Not Speak Its Name","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Aug-14 4:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, pretty much this. \u00a0No, really, I mean it seems like 95% of the Internet is virulently, vocally, zealously One Side or the Other Side, in a White Hats vs Black Hats kind of way, and any attempt at nuance, at noting that critique of certain actions by one party\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":136438,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/14\/yup-those-bullets-just-fired-themselves.html","url_meta":{"origin":17562,"position":1},"title":"Yup! 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