{"id":20061,"date":"2011-02-09T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/unblogged-bits-wed-9-feb-11-2230.html"},"modified":"2011-02-09T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:30:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-9-feb-11-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/unblogged-bits-wed-9-feb-11-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed.  9-Feb-11 2230)"},"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\/NvwLhujSf38\/\">Sinister Sites &#8211; The Denver International Airport | The Vigilant Citizen<\/a> &#8211; Ah, been a while since I read some good conspiracy theorizing about DIA.  While VC loses points for  having no clue how the (admittedly offbeat) murals are sequenced, that&#8217;s made up for by incorporating the Demon Horse into the hellish stew.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/zaqScf-GzV0\/\">The Best Questions For A First Date \u00ab OkTrends<\/a> &#8211; More fascinating numbers-crunching from OkCupid &#8230; and more relief that I&#8217;m not in the dating game.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/bWpMDR5DEck\/201102090045\">Simon Maloy: Glenn Beck Lies About The NY Times and Mussolini<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;This isn&#8217;t an innocent mistake. Beck is a liar, and for all his exhortations that his audience &#8220;do their own research,&#8221; he seems pretty comfortable assuming that they&#8217;re too lazy to actually do so.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/TcuPHd3WX10\/\">74 Members of Congress Seek Justice Thomas\u2019 Recusal From Affordable Care Act  Lawsuits<\/a> &#8211; This will be interesting to watch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/0Tu0ubcJtEM\/\">House Republican Spending Cuts Target Programs For Children And Pregnant  Women<\/a> &#8211; Well, they have to pay for tax cuts for the rich somehow!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/BKEnGzklNBQ\/\">Texas Tea Party Leader On Obama: He \u2018Might Be Muslim\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Again, still, some more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/iQ7UKIaNZzE\/bollywood-vs-bin-laden\">Bollywood vs. Bin Laden<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;America has so far relied mostly on hard power to defeat the Islamist threat. This strategy depends on it killing more Islamists than producing. However, if its calculus of attrition does not pan out, it won\u2019t mean that there is nothing left to resist Islamism anymore. There are softer forces such as Bollywood that will sap this ideology\u2014slowly but surely.&#8221; Very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/-Vsq3SJ3Knk\/another-attempted-smear-planned-parenthood\">Another Attempted Smear of Planned Parenthood<\/a> &#8211; When in doubt about whether the Big Lie is being effective &#8230; just keep telling it!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/9n-myS0wNXA\/anti-equality-testimony-may-have-backfired-maryland\">Anti-Equality Testimony May Have Backfired in Maryland<\/a> &#8211; I would love to see him change his vote.  At the very least, one would hope it would give the conservatives some pause in the rhetoric they&#8217;re using.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/3w0JOM9bdIU\/027926.php\">House GOP leaders lose another one<\/a> &#8211; And an equally asinine one, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Pr-wjeCgPnk\/republican-congressmen-embrace-lila-rose-and-live-action%E2%80%99s-hoax-videos\">Republican Congressmen Embrace Lila Rose and Live Action\u2019s Hoax Videos<\/a> &#8211; Don&#8217;t let the truth get in the way of our talking points!<\/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;. Sinister Sites &#8211; The Denver International Airport | The Vigilant Citizen &#8211; Ah, been a while since I read some good conspiracy theorizing about DIA. While VC loses points for having no clue how the (admittedly offbeat) murals are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/unblogged-bits-wed-9-feb-11-2230.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Wed.  9-Feb-11 2230)&#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-20061","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":24472,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/not-that-i-ever-listen-to-anything-glenn-beck-says.html","url_meta":{"origin":20061,"position":0},"title":"Not that I ever listen to anything Glenn Beck says","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Dec-11 2:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But it's sometimes kind of interesting, as Beck claims (inexplicably) that Gingrich and Obama are both \"big government progressives\" (um, definitely not and sadly not) and therefore if the Tea Partiers are supporting Gingrich, it must be a racist thing on their part.Yeah, it's more than a bit goofy, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/glenn-beck-is-a-dolt-but-i-repeat-myself.html","url_meta":{"origin":20061,"position":1},"title":"Glenn Beck is a dolt (but I repeat myself)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-May-13 9:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"I would dearly love to ignore Beck, but since one of the nation's most powerful lobbying organization his having him speak at their annual convention, I guess he's still newsworthy.In this case, Beck is all up in arms (so to speak)\u00a0about his conviction that the \"uber-Left\" ran\u00a0a phony\u00a0gun incident, just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/lewis-black-on-glenn-beck.html","url_meta":{"origin":20061,"position":2},"title":"Lewis Black on Glenn Beck","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-May-10 10:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lewis Black on The Daily Show discusses Glenn \"Nazi Tourette's\" Beck. 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