{"id":17863,"date":"2010-07-14T18:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/unblogged-bits-wed-14-jul-10-2001.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:35:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:35:51","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-14-jul-10-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/unblogged-bits-wed-14-jul-10-2001.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 14-Jul-10 2001)"},"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. Princess Leia Should’ve Called a Cab<\/a> – Very fun.<\/li>\n
  2. Do Not Cry for Simon Tam<\/a> – Okay, this trailer is even better than the Firefly one. Oh, what sort of medical hijinx are Simon, Saffron, and that lovable Badger going to get into this week?<\/li>\n
  3. Lame ducks<\/a> – We insist that the Dems not do what they are legally allowed to do! It would be very inconvenient for us!<\/li>\n
  4. VIDEO: Yes, there is racism in the Tea Party movement.<\/a> – Are the Tea Parties institutionally and majority racist? I don’t know — but there are certainly racists within the “movement,” as demonstrated here, and for the TP “leadership” to deny that is disingenuous at best.<\/li>\n
  5. Coburn: New Tax Cuts Cost Money But Extending The Bush Tax Cuts \u2018Isn\u2019t A Cost\u2019<\/a> – Coburn continued to say, “And since we’re extending our stay at the hotel beyond our original reservation, that won’t cost us any money, either.”<\/li>\n
  6. Barrasso and Sessions Claim That Judges Who Disagree With Them Aren\u2019t Allowed To Decide Cases<\/a> – Well, that’s a convenient approach.<\/li>\n
  7. No one can be too right wing for cable news<\/a> – Most of the media these days is more focused on (a) garnering ratings by showing controversy, and (b) garnering ratings by pandering to the most enthusiastic folks on the fringe. Neither is conducive to (c) being informative.<\/li>\n
  8. Republicans To Unemployed: Why Won’t You All Just Get Some Jobs Already? | TPMDC<\/a> – Maybe we should encourage the Republican congresscritters to go get new jobs, too.<\/li>\n
  9. GOP Reps Urge Countries That Criminalize Homosexuality To Oppose LGBT Rights NGO | TPMMuckraker<\/a> – Stay classy, GOP!<\/li>\n
  10. First Official Photo of Anthony Hopkins and Tom Hiddleston in Thor; Marvel Confirms Thor and Captain America for 3D<\/a> – Well, there’s a panel I’ll have to be sure to be at.<\/li>\n
  11. Toshiba Tries to Weasel Out of Free-TV-If-Spain-Wins World Cup Promotion<\/a> – I predict a serious downturn in Toshiba sales.<\/li>\n
  12. Tea Party Leader Condemns NAACP For Making \u2018More Money Off Of Race Than Any Slave Trader Ever\u2019<\/a> – Wow. No wonder he doesn’t want to the Tea Partiers to restrain themselves from hatred and bigotry — he wouldn’t have anything else to talk about.<\/li>\n
  13. Parents Television Council F*cking Pissed About Repeal Of FCC Indecency Ban – The Consumerist<\/a> – Technically, the court ruled that levying massive fines for the inadvertent blurting of an obscenity (y’know, something that most of us have done at an inappropriate time, even though we’re all fine, upstanding citizen) was based on unconstitutionally vague standards that chilled free speech. It didn’t free up Howard Stern to broadcast at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon.<\/li>\n
  14. Picking Up Furniture From The Curb Could Cost You Thousands<\/a> – And once something is a source of revenue, protecting that revenue stream becomes more important than whether it’s right or wrong (cf. civil confiscation laws).<\/li>\n
  15. Christmas Creeps In Slowly At Macy’s<\/a> – Ugh.<\/li>\n
  16. BP may get tax refund because of oil disaster expenses.<\/a> – That’s … swell.<\/li>\n
  17. Problem Solved of the Day: The Great Debate has met its match: A…<\/a> – Genius!<\/li>\n
  18. Teens Now Getting High Off ‘Digital Drugs’ – NewsOn6.com – Tulsa, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports – KOTV.com |<\/a> – Um … call me skeptical.<\/li>\n
  19. Google Quietly Testing Multiple Account Log-Ins<\/a> – I worked around it (when juggling both a Google Apps work account and a personal Google account) by running one in Firefox and the other in Chrome. This solution looks a bit more, um, elegant.<\/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 …. Princess Leia Should’ve Called a Cab – Very fun. Do Not Cry for Simon Tam – Okay, this trailer is even better than the Firefly one. Oh, what sort of medical hijinx are Simon, Saffron, and that lovable Badger … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 14-Jul-10 2001)”<\/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":[361,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/firefly_serenit.html","url_meta":{"origin":17863,"position":0},"title":"Firefly Serenity is a go","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Mar-04 8:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Universal has greenlit the Serenity movie, based on Firefly. 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