{"id":20674,"date":"2011-04-06T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/unblogged-bits-wed-6-apr-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-04-06T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T17:30:40","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-6-apr-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/unblogged-bits-wed-6-apr-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 6-Apr-11 1130)"},"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. U.S. Troops Will Fight Without Pay If The Government Shuts Down<\/a> – In for a penny, GOP. If you patch all the “problems” with a government shutdown by selective bills, then there’s no impetus to avoid a shutdown of the stuff you want to shut down.<\/li>\n
  2. An Interactive Map With Every War Ever Waged [Maps]<\/a> – Oooooh, this is cool.<\/li>\n
  3. Hitler’s Christianity is Not Completely Irrelevant<\/a> – Hitler certainly started Christian — and the early-middle days of the Nazi movement he did a lot to appeal to the Christian population of Germany (and Europe). As time went on, that appeal became much more clearly manipulative and the religious element changed more obviously into nationalism and racism — with, eventually, some large chunks of paganism thrown into the mix. Of course, Hitler was also a nut. Slapping a simple label on him (Christian, atheist, whatever) is a gross over-simplification — and ignoring his use<\/b> of religion to manipulate public opinion and the populace is even more dangerous than that.<\/li>\n
  4. Lessons in how NOT to negotiate, courtesy of your President. Lesson 1: Don’t accept the other guy’s opening offer.<\/a> – “No wonder the Hill GOPers have no fear of the White House. When you start negotiating by agreeing to the Republicans’ opening offer, you aren’t negotiating, you’re caving.” Yes.<\/li>\n
  5. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is at it again<\/a> – Stay out of our way, except when we need you because we’re too big to fail!<\/li>\n
  6. With Liberty And Electroshock Treatment for All<\/a> – There are, indeed, times when it seems like our politics have gone stark, raving mad.<\/li>\n
  7. Florida Republicans Bring Back Legal Graft With Disgraced \u201cLeadership Funds\u201d<\/a> – “Nothing good comes out of corruption, even when it\u2019s in broad daylight.” The best government money can buy!<\/li>\n
  8. Google loses autocomplete defamation case in Italy | Regulation | ZDNet UK<\/a> – Gee — if autocomplete was coming up with bad associations with my name, I would WANT to know about it, so I could look up those sites (and file anti-defamation suits against THEM).<\/li>\n
  9. A Depressing Statistic<\/a> – Well, if you had to make a choice, I suppose Trump is better than most of the folks on that list (I’d probably vote for Romney, if pressed). I think that’s why Trump has made such a splash — if you’ve already decided you don’t like or trust Romney, Trump is the best of a bad lot. Which is, itself, really depressing.<\/li>\n
  10. Oregon Geology Bonus Features: Geologic Core<\/a> – That’s very cool.<\/li>\n
  11. Dish Network acquiring Blockbuster for $228M – The Denver Post<\/a> – I read the story and I still don’t understand what they hope to get out of it.<\/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 …. U.S. Troops Will Fight Without Pay If The Government Shuts Down – In for a penny, GOP. If you patch all the “problems” with a government shutdown by selective bills, then there’s no impetus to avoid a shutdown of … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 6-Apr-11 1130)”<\/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-20674","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":39214,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/16\/government-shutdown-for-thee-but-not-for-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":20674,"position":0},"title":"Government shutdown for thee, but not for me","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Oct-13 9:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"How dare they shut down the stuff I care about!?I am not pooh-poohing the suffering and need of those ranchers. \u00a0There's clearly a lot of pain, and a lot of opportunity to help those folk get back on their feet. 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