{"id":18755,"date":"2010-09-29T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-2331.html"},"modified":"2010-09-29T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:31:04","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Sep-10 2331)"},"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\/eKVdAr5ANF8\/\">Fox Newsers Call Obama \u2018Paranoid,\u2019 \u2018Out Of Touch,\u2019 And \u2018Radical\u2019 For Noting  That Fox Promotes The GOP Agenda<\/a> &#8211; How Monica, Sean, and Dana can say those things with a straight face, in light of what they&#8217;re discussing, demonstrates their impressive thespian skills.  &#8220;Barack Obama thinks we&#8217;re out to  get him. That obviously makes him a petty, vindictive, thin-skinned, out-of-touch paranoid (who probably wasn&#8217;t even born here).&#8221; Right &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/0XA54rMspiA\/flintstones-anniversary.html\">&#8216;The Flintstones&#8217; Rocks on at 50 : Discovery News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/_6vJkoajBKM\/9391\">Talk To Action | In Grayson Flap, Factcheck.org Misses Webster Ties To Christian Reconstructionism<\/a> &#8211; I believe that Grayson still acted improperly (to say the least) with the misleading cuts between what Webster was actually saying and what Grayson&#8217;s ad showed him saying.  That said, this is a fascinating look at Webster and the folks he hangs out with.  The &#8220;Taliban Dan&#8221; title may be warranted, even if not by the ad Grayson ran.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/eOFqZprvgZI\/ci_16208734\">Audit: 49 school districts show signs of financial weakness &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a> &#8211; Kay is in the Littleton district. And, yes, all we&#8217;ve been seeing and reading the past 2-3 years have been budget constraints and cuts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/r6DKM4FFlBc\/atheist-america.html\">Atheist America<\/a> &#8211; Actually, my suspicion is that the general religiosity of the majority will continue to to significantly and fundamentally dwindle (though for reasons more prosaic than the Atheist Revolution), while the religiosity of a sizable minority will become greater, and (within a substantial subgroup) more strident and radical.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/MlPZNlGiW5E\/-DE-Sen:-ODonnell-is-on-a-mission-from-God\">DE-Sen: O&#8217;Donnell is on a mission from God<\/a> &#8211; Maybe God could have clued her in on her LinkedIn page earlier &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/evPTTadq3sI\/\">Christine O\u2019Donnell Says She Didn\u2019t Write Her LinkedIn Profile<\/a> &#8211; Yyyyeah &#8230; because a modern political candidate doesn&#8217;t vet all the info about them out on the Intertubes &#8212; especially on key sites like LinkedIn &#8212; early on in their campaign.  I think Ms O&#8217;Donnell is being less than honest in her scapegoating (just as she&#8217;s being both less than honest and genuinely silly in her student loan biz criticism).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Om8KMrjoEKc\/sabotage-postdoc-fiddles-with-graduate-students-cells.ars\">Sabotage: postdoc fiddles with graduate student&#8217;s cells<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Science is performed by people, and nasty bastards turn up everywhere.&#8221; Which is one reason why the scientific method, and the general scientific peer-reviewed community, is so important; it intentionally strives to maximize objectivity and minimize the impact one &#8216;nasty bastard&#8217; can have.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/_KLr-uYyCYE\/android-task-killers-explained-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them\">Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Use Them  [Android]<\/a> &#8211; Okay, I&#8217;m going to try some of the suggestions here.  I haven&#8217;t had any particular problems one way or another.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/XO0KffeUAR8\/living-bridges-india-grown-500-years-pics.php\">Living Bridges in India Have Grown for 500 Years (Pics)<\/a> &#8211; Cool &#8230;<\/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;. Fox Newsers Call Obama \u2018Paranoid,\u2019 \u2018Out Of Touch,\u2019 And \u2018Radical\u2019 For Noting That Fox Promotes The GOP Agenda &#8211; How Monica, Sean, and Dana can say those things with a straight face, in light of what they&#8217;re discussing, demonstrates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-sep-10-2331.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Sep-10 2331)&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18755","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":26437,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/because-if-theres-an-opportunity-to-offer-up-a-doltish-opinion-you-can-trust.html","url_meta":{"origin":18755,"position":0},"title":"Because if there&#39;s an opportunity to offer up a doltish opinion, you can trust&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-12 11:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because if there's an opportunity to offer up a doltish opinion, you can trust Fox NewsYes, of course it's true -- liberals and progressives and commies on the Left want to get rid of the poor by making sure they have access to birth control. 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