{"id":19367,"date":"2010-12-01T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T23:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/unblogged-bits-wed-1-dec-10-1631.html"},"modified":"2014-11-16T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T20:17:05","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-1-dec-10-1631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/unblogged-bits-wed-1-dec-10-1631.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 1-Dec-10 1631)"},"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. Red Rock Canyon petroglyphs vandalized<\/a> – May I please use a baseball bat on this vandalous moron? Please?<\/li>\n
  2. Two more walls collapse at Pompeii<\/a> – Gag! Stop it until I see you next year!<\/li>\n
  3. Two more walls collapse at Pompeii: Sevaan Franks<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Illinois Civil Unions Bill Passes Senate, Gov. Quinn Will Sign Into Law<\/a> – Well done, Illinois. It’s not actual marriage, but it’s less unequal than before.<\/li>\n
  5. iPhone Auto Correct Screw Ups<\/a> – “External garderobes”! Excellent!<\/li>\n
  6. House GOP Ends Climate-Change Committee Because It\u2019s Not Real<\/a> – Because why would we need to have a congressional focus not just on climate change, but on energy independence? Just drill, baby, drill! And with enough warming, soon everywhere will be a deep-water drilling site!<\/li>\n
  7. Strange bedfellows and ethanol subsidies<\/a> – Amusing. But the whole ethanol thing has been a bi-partisan vs bi-partisan issue for a long time. It will be interesting to see how the “federal spending doesn’t create jobs” thang goes alongside the “cutting this federal spending will cost jobs” thang.<\/li>\n
  8. Wasn’t My Job to Do My Job<\/a> – So from Simpson’s standpoint, it was to put out what HE thought were the solutions to the problem, not to come up with something that that the commission could all agree on. Um … then why do you think you weren’t the only one asked, knucklehead?<\/li>\n
  9. Kyl: Dems Cave By Monday Or No START Treaty | TPMDC<\/a> – So, Sen. Kyl, the issue is not all your ostensible concerns over nuclear security and upgrading our remaining weaponry, but it’s about playing political games. Got it. Thanks for revealing yourself as a hack.<\/li>\n
  10. Bedroom Decorating Is a Hot Trend for Tweens and Teens – WSJ.com<\/a> – We’ve (esp. the [ahem] maternal grandparents) certainly indulged Kay with some redecorating efforts in her room, though much has been DIY, not via Pottery Barn and the like. And that’s how you can do it without spending several thousand dollars every couple of years (sorry, Kitten).<\/li>\n
  11. Foreign aid and public confusion<\/a> – “This may be the single most important fact about public opinion regarding the budget: most Americans think that much if not most of the money the federal government spends goes to things they don’t like and people they don’t like, whether it’s wasteful pork or foreigners or lazy welfare recipients. So when you tell them we have to start slashing government, they think, ‘Sounds great — it certainly won’t affect me!'”<\/li>\n
  12. Wikileaks Shows Rumsfeld and Casey Lied about the Iraq War – The Daily Beast<\/a> – Yeah, I know — there’s a shocker.<\/li>\n
  13. The Limits of Smart Power<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Barton Says Antisemitism Not Playing a Role In TX Speaker Race<\/a> – It’s not Anti-Semitism, it’s Pro-Christianism!<\/li>\n
  15. What the right’s “American exceptionalism” attack on Obama is really about<\/a> – “Let’s stipulate at the outset that there’s really no point in getting into a debate with right-wingers over the question of whether Obama believes in ‘American exceptionalism.’ That’s because the right intends this attack line as a proxy for their real argument: That Obama is not one of us.”<\/li>\n
  16. One Senator’s modest proposal: Force Senators to actually filibuster<\/a> – Sounds good to me.<\/li>\n
  17. Pence’s priorities<\/a> – “I think the minimum that we have to do right now for Americans that are struggling in unemployment in this economy is make sure that no American sees a tax increase.” Welcome to today’s compassionately conservative GOP.<\/li>\n
  18. All 42 Senate Republicans announce hostage plan<\/a> – “Also note the unstated truth behind the threat — Republicans will block literally everything until they’re satisfied, at which point, they’ll try to block literally everything anyway.”<\/li>\n
  19. For Your Health This Thanksgiving, Smoke Camels<\/a> – It would be remarkable that they could actually taste their dinner, chain-smoking this way.<\/li>\n
  20. Vintage Cigarette Ads: \u201c\u2026a Lucky Instead of a Sweet\u201d<\/a> – I look forward to how today’s ads will be mocked by the future.<\/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 …. Red Rock Canyon petroglyphs vandalized – May I please use a baseball bat on this vandalous moron? Please? Two more walls collapse at Pompeii – Gag! Stop it until I see you next year! Two more walls collapse at … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 1-Dec-10 1631)”<\/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":[748,80,77,131,10,527,108,68,19,25,718,349,65,380,358,16,378,376,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-media-commercial","category-economy","category-energy","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-harry-potter","category-history","category-holidays","category-home-improvement","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-military","category-my-mobile-pda","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-intolerance-persecution","category-taxing-spending","category-travel-italy-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41344,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/05\/ruins-of-ruins.html","url_meta":{"origin":19367,"position":0},"title":"Ruins of Ruins","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Mar-14 9:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's bloody well about time. 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