{"id":22345,"date":"2011-08-24T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-wed-24-aug-11-1731.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:11:08","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-24-aug-11-1731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-wed-24-aug-11-1731.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 24-Aug-11 1731)"},"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. BBC News – Russian Progress space freighter lost<\/a> – Yes, well, thank goodness we have our own space program to pick up the slack — oh, wait, never mind.<\/li>\n
  2. Vance Gilbert : Racial Profiling First Hand<\/a> – I am, perhaps, overly naive in thinking that race was the primary driver here, but it was certainly has to have been a contributing factor. I just have to wonder what the hell was going through the heads of the flight attendants (“He’s a big black man reading a book about airplanes!”) and the pilots (“OMGWTFBBQ! We gotta turn this baby around!”). I mean, they’re really afraid of a large black man (how many large black men fly on planes each day without calling the sheriff)? Or someone reading a book about airplanes (really?)? Or someone who had their fanny pack on the floor behind their feet (which would get about 3\/4 of every flight in trouble)? Even all three, with the most zany paranoia I can think of, doesn’t earn any more than a shrug in my tiny little brain. Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  3. Grammar fail on Old Navy’s college t-shirts. Uh oh. on Shine<\/a> – Heh. (But, yes, it is important.)<\/li>\n
  4. Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO \u2013 Boing Boing<\/a> – Sad, that it’s being driven (presumably) by health reasons. Love him or loathe him, Jobs made Apple a key tech player in the personal computing revolution of the late 20th\/early 21st Centuries.<\/li>\n
  5. Stupid for President<\/a> – As a “hard” requirement, I assume the writer is joking (for a variety of reasons). As a “soft” requirement (stupid candidates should be laughed off the stage and lose a miserable loss in any election), it’s certainly a pretty thought.<\/li>\n
  6. Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete<\/a> – Looks pretty cool (though the “rename” option for file option conflicts seems to be now missing).<\/li>\n
  7. Why was the East Coast earthquake felt so far from the epicenter?<\/a> – Interesting.<\/li>\n
  8. Report: Bank of America may need another $100-$200 billion<\/a> – Unfortunately, I suspect they’ll just get bailed out because (a) they’re “too big to fail,” (b) are part of an industry that wields way too much power in Congress, and (c) any more direct government action will cause election year criticisms by the GOP of the Obama Administration as bunch of commie-socialists who are “taking over” the banking system in order to enslave America. Which, as we know, is the banking system’s job.<\/li>\n
  9. Spain launches program to cut billions from pharma costs<\/a> – Silly Europeans! Don’t they know the purpose of government is to protect the interests of corporations?<\/li>\n
  10. Jeb Bush Warns 2012 Repubs Not to Ride The Crazy Train<\/a> – Fine words. Though I have to wonder what his rhetoric would be like if he were in the race.<\/li>\n
  11. The Right Fixes For Medicare<\/a> – Yeah, the problem is that being specific about types of cuts — certain tests, certain treatments — garners a lot more criticism than blindly changing eligibility requirements or cutting funding.<\/li>\n
  12. Town Hall Crowd Jeers Rep. Chabot For Voting To Strip Planned Parenthood Funding | ThinkProgress<\/a> – “By Chabot\u2019s logic, Congress ought to strip federal funding for any religious organizations that receive federal funds to finance their charitable and social work because ‘money is fungible.’ Yet it\u2019s difficult to imagine Republicans will use the same standard to target groups like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops any time soon.”<\/li>\n
  13. Public Radio International<\/a> – Fortunately, we may not have to worry about this much longer …<\/li>\n
  14. Rick Perry holds the record on executions – The Washington Post<\/a> – He’s Number 1! He’s Number 1!<\/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 …. BBC News – Russian Progress space freighter lost – Yes, well, thank goodness we have our own space program to pick up the slack — oh, wait, never mind. Vance Gilbert : Racial Profiling First Hand – I am, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 24-Aug-11 1731)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[715,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":874,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/07\/change_is_in_th.html","url_meta":{"origin":22345,"position":0},"title":"Change is in the air …","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Nov-01 2:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Both in blogs I have been reading and in Doyce's NaNoWriMo blog, I'm finding a great deal of attraction to large, white screens and small black text, with just touches...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/movie-review-the-black-hole-1979.html","url_meta":{"origin":22345,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: "The Black Hole" (1979)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jul-16 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The bones of a really cool idea (Gothic Horror in Space, as influenced by 2001) are masked by awfully bad acting, dialog, and wildly uneven tone.Full review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-black-hole\/Disney's first PG movie nets 2.5 stars out of 5 from me. 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