{"id":19396,"date":"2010-12-02T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/unblogged-bits-thu-2-dec-10-1030.html"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:30:46","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-2-dec-10-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/unblogged-bits-thu-2-dec-10-1030.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 2-Dec-10 1030)"},"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. Bachmann-Led Congressional Tea Partiers Request $1 Billion In Earmarks<\/a> – They’re not Earmarks! They’re Patriotmarks!<\/li>\n
  2. Republicans Block Child Nutrition Bill<\/a> – Stay classy, compassionate conservatives!<\/li>\n
  3. Being bad to your customers is bad for business<\/a> – Interesting follow-up from Google to the previous link I had on this. I’m gratified to see that nofollow is being used here and that Google is interested in figuring out methods to deal with this problem (which they are carefully not discussing in detail).<\/li>\n
  4. Twitter Turns Off Verified Accounts System | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD<\/a> – That’s an unfortunate move on their part. Granted, it’s non-trivial to make such verification, but without it, I see all sorts of problems in the future.<\/li>\n
  5. How Joe Lieberman is exactly like a Chinese dictator – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com<\/a> – “But any attempt by political officials to start blocking Americans’ access to political content on the Internet ought to provoke serious uproar and unrest. If the Tea Party movement and the Right generally were even minimally genuine in their ostensible beliefs, few things would trigger more intense objections than a political official trying to dictate to private actors which political content they should allow on the Internet …”<\/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 …. Bachmann-Led Congressional Tea Partiers Request $1 Billion In Earmarks – They’re not Earmarks! They’re Patriotmarks! Republicans Block Child Nutrition Bill – Stay classy, compassionate conservatives! Being bad to your customers is bad for business – Interesting follow-up from Google … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 2-Dec-10 1030)”<\/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":"","_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-19396","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":12885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/lend_me_your_earmarks.html","url_meta":{"origin":19396,"position":0},"title":"Lend Me Your Earmarks","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Sep-08 8:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Two things.\u00a0 First, earmarks are not necessarily an Evil Thing. A lot depends on what they are for (duh).\u00a0 Yes, the process by which earmarks are gathered (\"Let me...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/ear.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12874,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/palin_points.html","url_meta":{"origin":19396,"position":1},"title":"Palin Points","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Sep-08 8:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"A lovely run-down of the various Glories of Sarah Palin and how they're\u00a0lies myths. Includes these top hits: Palin visited troops in Iraq. 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Tweets About The Beatles Coming To iTunes The Beatles finally hit iTunes - Holy Kaw! - As opposed to, um ... ripping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Potpourri"","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12937,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/palin_potpourri_for_a_con.html","url_meta":{"origin":19396,"position":4},"title":"Palin Potpourri for a Conventional Thursday","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Sep-08 1:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know, obsessive a bit. But ... Factchecking Palin\u00a0and The Reality-Based Community: Palin v. Reality\u00a0- Palin's Big Speech and the, um, misrepresentations therein. 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