{"id":20665,"date":"2011-04-04T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-apr-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:34:37","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-4-apr-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/unblogged-bits-mon-4-apr-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 4-Apr-11 2330)"},"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. Cheaper Than an iPad 2: At End of Emails, Type \u2018Sent from my iPad 2\u2032<\/a> – HA!<\/li>\n
  2. Nazis fed speed to infantrymen and tested cocaine-like stimulant in concentration camps | Mail Online<\/a> – Not that the Reich was (or is) the only armed force to use drugs to improve soldier performance. It’s not just for Captain America any more!<\/li>\n
  3. EFF to Oregon Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant to Search Arrestees’ Cell Phones<\/a> – Search warrants are such a bother! We should let the cops search for anything on anyone that they have an interest in searching for! Otherwise the terrorists win!<\/li>\n
  4. REPORT: Three States Propose Massive Tax Cuts For Millionaires, Tax Hikes for Middle Class<\/a> – I, for one, welcome our new un-tax-burdened overlords.<\/li>\n
  5. Joe. My. God.: MONTANA: House Blocks Bill To Decriminalize Homosexuality<\/a> – Because otherwise the terrorists win!<\/li>\n
  6. War on the Working Poor<\/a> – “Conservatives are often quick to accuse progressives of engaging in ‘class warfare’ for supposedly promoting policies that ‘redistribute wealth.’ The charge, of course, is rich with hypocrisy. Economic inequality has reached the worst level since the Great Depression. The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. The number of people relying on food stamps is at a record high. If there’s class warfare, it’s the working poor and the middle class who are the casualties of an increasingly radical conservative economic agenda.”<\/li>\n
  7. The GOP plan for Medicaid<\/a> – Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?<\/li>\n
  8. GOP White House hopefuls agree: no Planned Parenthood funding<\/a> – Knee-jerk base-trucklers are knee-jerk base-truckling.<\/li>\n
  9. Disgusting speech is still protected speech<\/a> – Speech that is popular and uncontroversial needs no protecting. It’s just the despicable speech that needs it — and everyone says something that someone else would consider despicable.<\/li>\n
  10. Scott Walker Gives $81,500 Government Job To Top Donor\u2019s 26-Year-Old College Dropout Son<\/a> – To the victor belong the spoils!<\/li>\n
  11. April 4<\/a> – If King were alive today, I have no doubt that the Becks, Limbaughs, O’Reillys and Palins of today would rush to call him a socialist and not a real American — sort of like the ones of back then called him.<\/li>\n
  12. Woman charged in suicide attempt after fetus died – US news – Environment – msnbc.com<\/a> – I’m surprised I haven’t seen more play about this in the news.<\/li>\n
  13. Ironic anniversary: Marshall Plan, April 3, 1948<\/a> – “What would have happened had the U.S. said ‘we can\u2019t afford a Marshall Plan?’ Santayana\u2019s Ghost shakes his head. The U.S. would not have had the aid of growing, free-market economics in France, Germany, Italy, England and Japan, during the Cold War. Advantages would have been conceded to the Soviet Union and communism, worldwide.” But … but … DEFICITS!<\/li>\n
  14. Who am I this time?: 13 comic book characters with convoluted origin stories and confusing identities | Books | Inventory | The A.V. Club<\/a> – The first four are the ones actually featured in the print edition, and are arguably the worst — though Donna Troy certainly gets honorable mention, and I was just talking with the family about Supergirl’s bizarro (so to speak) history last night.<\/li>\n
  15. You Can\u2019t Judge a Cereal by its Cover<\/a> – This seems like an odd thing for Post to do. One way or the other, folks will notice the difference — which can only damage the Post brand.<\/li>\n
  16. Terry Jones and the Afghan Riots<\/a> – But in the real world (unlike insurance claims), responsibility is not a simple divvying up of a pie. Nobody (certainly not I) claims the murderous yahoos who killed were righteous and innocent victims; far from it. But Jones did his thing not only having been clearly warned of the consequences, but, to gather from his statements, to demonstrate to the world how bloody and brutal Islam is. Is there no level of ethical responsibility he has to carry for his actions?<\/li>\n
  17. Daily Kos: Budget Battle Royale!<\/a> – Yeah, that’s pretty much how it seems to be working out.<\/li>\n
  18. Republican budget proposal privatizes Medicare<\/a> – Let’s see — gives money to industry, exercises no control over costs except by cutting benefits, prefers insurance company bureaucrats controlling access rather than government bureaucrats — yup, sounds like a GOP plan to me!<\/li>\n
  19. Banks and credit-card issuers warn that hackers may have obtained email addresses – The Washington Post<\/a> – Folks, never, ever, ever just click on a link in an email purportedly from a major company you do business with. Go to the company’s site and sign in from there. (Ditto for responding to phone messages supposedly from credit card company — call the number on the back of your card, instead.)<\/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 …. Cheaper Than an iPad 2: At End of Emails, Type \u2018Sent from my iPad 2\u2032 – HA! Nazis fed speed to infantrymen and tested cocaine-like stimulant in concentration camps | Mail Online – Not that the Reich was (or … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 4-Apr-11 2330)”<\/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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/scotus-rules-that-cell-phone-records-can-require-a-search-warrant.html","url_meta":{"origin":20665,"position":0},"title":"SCOTUS rules that cell phone records can require a search warrant","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Jun-18 8:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Cell phone companies have records of calls and locations (via tower records) that can provide a bonanza of data for law enforcement trying to see where someone (or their phone, at least) is at any given time, potentially for years.The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, has decided that\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":30240,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/12\/a-search-warrant-for-email-inconceivable.html","url_meta":{"origin":20665,"position":1},"title":"A search warrant for email? 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