{"id":18745,"date":"2010-09-29T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T23:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-1730.html"},"modified":"2010-09-29T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T23:30:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Sep-10 1730)"},"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. House finally approves Zadroga 9\/11 Health and Compensation Act<\/a> – “Just so we’re perfectly clear, a month before national elections, 90% of House Republicans voted against health care benefits for sick 9\/11 heroes. Seriously. This is the party that’s expected to do extremely well in November.”<\/li>\n
  2. BBC News – Taking showers ‘can make you ill’<\/a> – Ruh-roh.<\/li>\n
  3. With ‘CNN Caper,’ Activist James O’Keefe Hoped To Hurt News Network’s Credibility<\/a> – I’ll meet your accusation of “Shoddy journalism, and low journalistic standards” and raise you two “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”s. Asshat.<\/li>\n
  4. The belly-button of the world<\/a> – One of my regrets to date is that, in several visits to London, I’ve never made it to Greenwich. Someday …<\/li>\n
  5. The Day After Calling For A Crackdown On Hiring Undocumented Workers, Whitman Admits Employing One<\/a> – Snort<\/b> Yeah, there’s a huge surprise.<\/li>\n
  6. Richest House Member Darrell Issa Wants Tax Rates For The Rich Lowered From Bush Rates<\/a> – I wonder if we can modify the 27th Amendment to incorporate tax cuts, too.<\/li>\n
  7. Administrations Never Give Up A Power, And Extend It When They Can: Example 2,942,<\/a> – Among the greatest sins of the Bush\/Cheney Administration was not the crimes they committed themselves, but the precedents they set. And Obama is doing precisely the same thing.<\/li>\n
  8. Quote of the Day<\/a> – Or workhouses! Maybe we can bring back workhouses!<\/li>\n
  9. Coburn Holding Up Millions Of Dollars In Aid For Haiti Earthquake Survivors Over Obscure Objection<\/a> – At what point do we simply call such actions evil?<\/li>\n
  10. On which issues will we become less moral?<\/a> – I like to think that things improve, overall, over time. But that doesn’t mean some things to backslide.<\/li>\n
  11. Tell The FCC To Nix The NBC Comcast Deal<\/a> – There’s really no upside for consumers here, and plenty of potential downside.<\/li>\n
  12. Turn off Gmail\u2019s conversation view<\/a> – I know folks who dislike the conversation view in Gmail, though I think it’s a huge strength. It’s kind of cool to see Google actually adding in a feature to turn a feature off.<\/li>\n
  13. Ancient American calculating engine<\/a> – Incredible!<\/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 …. House finally approves Zadroga 9\/11 Health and Compensation Act – “Just so we’re perfectly clear, a month before national elections, 90% of House Republicans voted against health care benefits for sick 9\/11 heroes. Seriously. This is the party that’s … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Sep-10 1730)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-18745","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":15440,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/the-government-and-first-class-health-care.html","url_meta":{"origin":18745,"position":0},"title":"The Government and “First-Class Health Care”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Jul-09 11:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of Jon Stewart, getting conservative pundit Bill Kristol to first admit the government can provide first-class care, as it does to our military ... but that the rest of the public doesn't deserve it. \u00a0 A few highlights, as cited by ThinkProgress: Why is government-run health care \u201cgood enough\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48750,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/to-health-in-a-handbasket.html","url_meta":{"origin":18745,"position":1},"title":""To Health in a Handbasket"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Dec-14 2:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"He should definitely keep his day job, but overall fun time with Obama on the Colbert Report. 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