{"id":20671,"date":"2011-04-05T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/unblogged-bits-tue-5-apr-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-04-05T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:30:39","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-5-apr-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/unblogged-bits-tue-5-apr-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 5-Apr-11 1730)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
    \n
  1. Ten Angry Men<\/a> – “What we saw was a House press conference held by 10 people who look remarkably similar to one another: 10 powerful, conservative, white men in dark suits, who make more money in a year than the vast majority of the American people. And these 10 powerful, conservative, white men in dark suits all want the same thing: to approve a budget that imposes hardship on the elderly, the disabled, low-income families, and the middle class, while rewarding the wealthy and corporations with even more tax breaks.” Because that’s the American way!<\/li>\n
  2. Bristol Palin\u2019s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention<\/a> – Nice work, if you can get it.<\/li>\n
  3. The XM25: A Future Weapon Killing Bad Guys Right Now<\/a> – Wait … 25mm<\/b> ?! That’s, like, an inch. Crikey. “Extremely accurate counterdefilade capability at the squad level” indeed.<\/li>\n
  4. Paul Ryan bravely takes us into the new “Bring Outcher Dead!” era of American prosperity<\/a> – I’m sure they can save even more money by hiring minors (once all those pesky child labor laws are repealed).<\/li>\n
  5. Shocker: Cheap Liquid Dish Soap Cleans Just As Well As The Pricey Stuff<\/a> – Yeah, pretty much. Soap = soap.<\/li>\n
  6. The anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all – George Monbiot – Guardian<\/a> – Interesting indeed. This doesn’t invalidate some of the other arguments against nuclear energy (not least of which being, what to do with the waste), but it does indicate that a lot of the anti-radiation fears have been ginned up to dishonestly support a policy direction.<\/li>\n
  7. Ben Dimiero: American Thinker Decries Stamps Adorned With “Blacks No One Has Ever Heard Of”<\/a> – Hey, Alan Fraser — I’ve never heard of you, either.<\/li>\n
  8. \u2018Cold War City\u2019<\/a> – Fascinating, in a macabre sense.<\/li>\n
  9. Atomic brand names<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. GOP Rep. Blackburn: It\u2019s \u2018Economic Child Abuse\u2019 To Oppose Budget That Kicks 200,000 Kids Out Of Preschool<\/a> – Won’t somebody think of the RICH children?<\/li>\n
  11. ThinkProgress \u00bb Rep. Gerry Connolly Proposes Officially Changing Title Of Anti-EPA Bill To \u2018Koch Brothers Appreciation Act\u2019<\/a> – Let’s at least be honest about it.<\/li>\n
  12. Are you feeling fired up?<\/a> – “This time around, I’m falling back to my old way: ‘Can’t let Orange Johnny Boehner and Pickled Mitch McConnell have a partner in the White House. Guess I’ll vote for Obama.’ It’s a valid way of assessing the situation and it provides some motivation, certainly, but it hardly fuels a fire in my belly.” That’s how, sadly, I’m feeling. And while I expect I will donate this coming election cycle, it will probably be to organizations I can trust to stay true to their message, not directly to the Obama campaign.<\/li>\n
  13. Krugman on the Medicare crisis: It will come down to Obama<\/a> – And if it comes down to Obama, unfortunately, we can expect him to give away half the store as an opening position.<\/li>\n
  14. Paul Ryan\u2019s \u201cfundamentally immoral\u201d plan to privatize Medicare<\/a> – “Mr Ryan\u2019s proposal to privatise and voucherise Medicare attempts to reintroduce the incentive to cut costs by dumping that risk back onto individual seniors. And the greatest risks will fall on the poorest, sickest, or least savvy elderly; they will be the ones most at risk of going uncovered. I agree with Mr Ryan that the government needs to limit taxpayers\u2019 exposure to Medicare cost inflation. I think this plan is a fundamentally immoral way to do it.” Pretty much, yes.<\/li>\n
  15. WPCandy: WordPress 3.1.1 has been released with maintenance and security upgrades<\/a> – Yeah, I need to do this …<\/li>\n
  16. Who Was Walter Reed?<\/a> – Some fun trivia.<\/li>\n
  17. Fischer: Welfare Just Gives Money To “People Who Rut Like Rabbits”<\/a> – Stay classy, Bryan!<\/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 …. Ten Angry Men – “What we saw was a House press conference held by 10 people who look remarkably similar to one another: 10 powerful, conservative, white men in dark suits, who make more money in a year than … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 5-Apr-11 1730)”<\/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-20671","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":36547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/the-dark-side-of-whiter-voting-districts.html","url_meta":{"origin":20671,"position":0},"title":"The dark side of whiter voting districts","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-May-13 9:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2012, GOP-led statehouses overall gerrymandered districts to make their own safer, largely by shunting minorities and more liberal populations into Democratic districts, and making sure their own districts were more likely to vote Republican. \u00a0Thus, even though most of the population growth in the US since 2002 was among\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":4309,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/26\/unsuited.html","url_meta":{"origin":20671,"position":1},"title":"Unsuited","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Sep-03 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the one hand, any time you file a huge flurry of law suits, you're bound to get a few erroneous targets in it. Of course, maybe that's why shotgun...","rel":"","context":"In "Media Moguls"","block_context":{"text":"Media Moguls","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-moguls"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9730,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/and_the_senate_too.html","url_meta":{"origin":20671,"position":2},"title":"And the Senate, too?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Nov-06 7:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"All of a sudden, it's looking pretty likely that the Dems will be declared the winner in the Virginia Senate race, giving them the Cinderella Story majority ... barely. Which...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2006"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2006","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2006"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9819,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/27\/comedy_central_lawyers_sh.html","url_meta":{"origin":20671,"position":3},"title":"Comedy Central lawyers shoot goose in dispute over golden egg","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Oct-06 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The suits down at Comedy Central apparently are worried that people aren't watching The Daily Show on their channel -- what, with its good sound and video quality -- but...","rel":"","context":"In "Media Moguls"","block_context":{"text":"Media Moguls","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-moguls"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27944,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/the-supremacy-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html","url_meta":{"origin":20671,"position":4},"title":"The Supremacy That Dare Not Speak Its Name","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-May-12 10:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that John Derbyshire is no longer working for a Respectable Conservative Publication, it appears he can proudly describe conservatism in all the terms that conservatives urgently reject. After raising \"White Supremacy\" and \"White Nationalism\" as alternative labels for American Conservatism, he notes:'I don't mind the word \"white\" in either\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":131727,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/a-conservative-critique-of-trumps-gloom-and-doom-about-america.html","url_meta":{"origin":20671,"position":5},"title":"A conservative critique of Trump's gloom-and-doom about America","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Oct-16 7:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump's main line of argument is that America is in awful shape, comparable to a Third World country in so many ways.But a lot of people disagree with that assessment, and they aren't all ideological supporters of his opponent, either. 'I\u2019m a conservative who finds the self-described billionaire businessman\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}