{"id":18873,"date":"2010-10-08T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-oct-10-1731.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:48:59","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-8-oct-10-1731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-oct-10-1731.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 8-Oct-10 1731)"},"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. Oliver Willis: Beck blames his medical problems on “drinking that poison” of progressives he’s been studying<\/a> – Behold the Lamb of Glenn, Who Taketh Away the Spiritual-Poison of the World …<\/li>\n
  2. WV GOP Congressional Candidate Appeals To Anti-Arab Sentiment<\/a> – Spooky Music! And … ARABS! Eek!<\/li>\n
  3. WV GOP Congressional Candidate Appeals To Anti-Arab Sentiment<\/a> – Spooky Music! And … ARABS! Eek!<\/li>\n
  4. Picture Books Languish as Parents Push \u2018Big-Kid Books\u2019 – NYTimes.com<\/a> – While I’m sure there’s an element of academic paranoia on the part of parents (ignoring the difference between reading a “chapter book” to a kid and buying one for them to read), I’d say that at least as large a factor is that picture books are freaking expensive, almost prohibitively so.<\/li>\n
  5. Open Left:: Leading GOP Radio Host Pushes Terrorist Attack on Any Islamic Center Built In Lower Manhattan<\/a> – Well, that’s certainly … disgusting.<\/li>\n
  6. Inside The Soviet’s Secret Failed Moon Program<\/a> – Wow. Very cool.<\/li>\n
  7. Gropec*** Lane<\/a> – “Warning: This post contains repeated uses of words that many people will find offensive.” Though it’s interesting from the perspective of how acceptable language changes over time.<\/li>\n
  8. BlogPost – Sharron Angle, David Vitter’s illegal aliens not quite illegal, photographer says<\/a> – But don’t let reality (or, for that matter, copyright) get in the way of some really obnoxious advertising, right?<\/li>\n
  9. Harry Reid’s Republican support<\/a> – That is fairly remarkable.<\/li>\n
  10. How The Controversial Foreclosure Bill Made It Through Congress With No Public Debate: Arthur Delaney<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Terry J. Allen: In Vermont, Shades of McCarthy<\/a> – Johnny Islin had a conveniently bogus list, too.<\/li>\n
  12. They Hate Us For Our Freedom? : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> – “I know that many Americans believe in ‘American exceptionalism’ but we are not granted exceptions from the most basic laws of behavior, and one of those iron laws is that when you oppress a people and commit massive violence against them, you radicalize them. And this counts for both sides. Just look at how much more radicalized we are in response to 9\/11 than we were before, how we reacted with such a massive and violent retaliation — even against a country that had nothing to do with that event. But we somehow cannot bring ourselves to acknowledge that the same thing is true of other people.”<\/li>\n
  13. LOL: Star Wars Jedi Bath Robe<\/a> – Tempting … except there would be dire mocking from house guests.<\/li>\n
  14. Just How Stupid Is Fox News? The Jet Pack Edition : Mike the Mad Biologist<\/a> – Next up on Fox & Friends: Bat Boy is really a SECRET MUSLIM! They report, we deride!<\/li>\n
  15. Recipes from Valabar\u2019s in Colorado<\/a> – De notes the recipes from our Big Fancy Dragaeran Dinner the other weekend. It was great food, and good company. Even the trout (not something I’d normally leap at) was fabulous. Thanks, De!<\/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 …. Oliver Willis: Beck blames his medical problems on “drinking that poison” of progressives he’s been studying – Behold the Lamb of Glenn, Who Taketh Away the Spiritual-Poison of the World … WV GOP Congressional Candidate Appeals To Anti-Arab Sentiment … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 8-Oct-10 1731)”<\/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":[35,36,350,100,81,38,12,108,374,380,23,16,378,82,372,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-media-books","category-civil-liberties","category-dolts","category-elections-2010","category-food-drink","category-fourth-estate","category-history","category-money-politics","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-parenting","category-potpourri","category-intolerance-persecution","category-space","category-star-wars-media-movies","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/yes-the-gop-is-lucky-to-have-mitt-as-their-candidate.html","url_meta":{"origin":18873,"position":0},"title":"Yes, the GOP is lucky to have Mitt as their candidate","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Sep-12 6:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Absolutely. Ann is compltely and totally correct -- given the alternatives were Tim, Newt, Herman, Rick, Rick, Donald, or some other \"Anyone but Romney\" flash in the pan who self-destructed when the public\u00a0revealed what a lunatic they were.Really. 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At a time...","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":25657,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/party-of-life.html","url_meta":{"origin":18873,"position":4},"title":"Party of Life","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Jan-12 3:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is an unfair phrase to use in that this is almost certainly the act of some deeply disturbed individual or small set of individuals -- though some folks treat animal lives pretty lightly.What I'd like to see are the reactions from the opposing candidate, their campaign, the state GOP\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":4114,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/03\/that_about_sums.html","url_meta":{"origin":18873,"position":5},"title":"That about sums it up","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Feb-03 5:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The New Republic has an excellent editorial out today on the moving bar for war, as Bush has complied with each objection of the anti-war left (\"Gotta get Congressional approval!\"...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46887,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions\/46887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}