{"id":19477,"date":"2010-12-08T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1030.html"},"modified":"2010-12-08T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:30:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1030.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed.  8-Dec-10 1030)"},"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\/oBIZHlejSR8\/\">DeMint Opposes Tax Deal Because Of Jobless Benefits: \u2018We Can\u2019t Just Keep  Paying People To Stay At Home\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Jim DeMint is a dolt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/rXYCapy_pwY\/\">No We Can\u2019t: One Progressive Who Sees Obama\u2019s Deal As Weakness<\/a> &#8211; It sounds like the Right and the Left are in a race as to who gets to filibuster this thing first. I do like this nice sum-up from Mary Landrieau (who&#8217;s anything but a flaming liberal): &#8220;It\u2019s what I\u2019m calling the Obama-McConnell plan. We\u2019re going to borrow $46 billion from the poor, from the middle class, from businesses of all sizes basically to give a tax cut to families in America today, that despite the recession, are making over a million dollars.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/4eFKlKeXC58\/\">Calvin and Hobbes for December 07, 2010<\/a> &#8211; I love Calvin&#8217;s father.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/4lKqOS0SS0E\/unanswered_email\">Why some emails go unanswered &#8211; The Oatmeal<\/a> &#8211; HA!  Plus, must use the &#8220;cockroaches and crickets&#8221; line some time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Vqv3txnhhyE\/\">Weather Radar<\/a> &#8211; Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/GCqEyqL2_Wc\/\">News Flash: FOX Just Realizes Jesus Was A Pinko Wino, Parents Understandably  Upset<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t speak for the whole book, but the passage quoted seems like quite a stirring description of Jesus, and is anything but &#8220;anti-God.&#8221;<\/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;. DeMint Opposes Tax Deal Because Of Jobless Benefits: \u2018We Can\u2019t Just Keep Paying People To Stay At Home\u2019 &#8211; Jim DeMint is a dolt. No We Can\u2019t: One Progressive Who Sees Obama\u2019s Deal As Weakness &#8211; It sounds like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1030.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Wed.  8-Dec-10 1030)&#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-19477","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":17174,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/the-godly-tea-parties.html","url_meta":{"origin":19477,"position":0},"title":"The Godly Tea Parties","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Apr-10 11:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Senator Jim DeMint sees the Tea Parties as a new \"Great Awakening\" in America's spirituality.\u00a0 Despite the idea that they are anti-tax (\"Taxed Enough Already\"), small-government, semi-libertarian movements, DeMint believes that leads directly to God. 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