{"id":22483,"date":"2011-09-02T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/unblogged-bits-fri-2-sep-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:39:07","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-2-sep-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/unblogged-bits-fri-2-sep-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 2-Sep-11 1730)"},"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. Chinese want to capture an asteroid into Earth’s orbit | DVICE<\/a> – Yeah, another one of those “What could possibly go wrong?” moments.<\/li>\n
  2. Breaking News: Obama Calls On EPA To Pull Back Ozone Standards<\/a> – Brilliant move! We’ll save money for private industry today, at the cost of of increasing spending for medical care tomorrow! It’s a win-win … for someone!<\/li>\n
  3. Debunking Austerity Madness: ZERO Job Growth in US, Gloomy Europe – Yet an Argentinean ‘Tango’<\/a> – Cutting government spending does not mean a huge spike in private spending (or private employment). It too often means less overall spending, which depresses employment, which reduces corporate revenues. There’s no easy answer, but spending too little is demonstrably as bad a problem as spending too much.<\/li>\n
  4. Snape is voted favourite Harry Potter character | Children’s books | guardian.co.uk<\/a> – Go, Snape, go!<\/li>\n
  5. Futurity.org \u2013 Threatened pikas hang on in the Rockies<\/a> – Go, pikas, go!<\/li>\n
  6. It’s Official: 17 Banks Slapped with Mortgage Lawsuits – Deal Journal – WSJ<\/a> – Good.<\/li>\n
  7. Erect Bum House | Bizarro Blog!<\/a> – Best paleontological cartoon you will read today.<\/li>\n
  8. DC Women Kicking Ass – A little 6-panel SUPERGIRL\/BATGIRL…<\/a> – Fun.<\/li>\n
  9. bookshelves of doom: I’ve never particularly liked…<\/a> – That might actually be tempting.<\/li>\n
  10. Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman wants Peace Corps out of China – The Denver Post<\/a> – So Coffman’s worried about a few million dollars being spent through the Peace Corps to support the global use of English and to establish ties with Chinese. Sound like worthy causes to me, but for him it’s all about how arrogant the Obama administration is. Hey, Mike — have you actually been in support of US government funding for higher education? Then why use that as a club here? Especially when there are hundreds of billions of dollars being frittered away on even less worthwhile programs and tax incentives?<\/li>\n
  11. Amazon\u2019s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I\u2019ve Seen It, Played With It. | TechCrunch<\/a> – Well, it certainly sounds interesting, though the very proprietary setup is something of a turn-off, and it’s not clear that it will be as reader-friendly (whizz-bang interface aside) as the simple e-ink Kindle. It being WiFi-only makes it less attractive at this point as well (an e-reader doesn’t need 3G, but a tablet kind of does). May wait for version 1.1, unless I hear a lot more positive press beyond this.<\/li>\n
  12. GOP Rep. Declares War On Peace Corps, Demands End To Program In China | ThinkProgress<\/a> – How is it I’m so unlucky that I’ve gone from Tom Tancredo as my US Congressman to Mike Coffman? Granted, I’d like to hear more about the reasoning for this particular aspect of the Peace Corps program … but Coffman tackling it the way he has simply makes it partisan politics, not good government.<\/li>\n
  13. Are Finns White?<\/a> – Granted that humans are big into both categorizaton and Us-vs-Them labels, but the identification of “races” (and the attempt to neatly slip folks into one or another of them) continues to astonish with its too-frequent silliness.<\/li>\n
  14. \u201cThe Art of Clean Up\u201d: El arte de ordenar<\/a> – OCD, anyone?<\/li>\n
  15. As it nears 30 years, Denver’s 16th Street Mall teems with characters – The Denver Post<\/a> – One of the cool things about working in downtown Denver is the 16th Street Mall.<\/li>\n
  16. Contrary To GOP Claims, Small Businesses Say Taxes And Regulation Aren\u2019t Holding Back Hiring | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Don’t let your facts get in the way of our talking points! We have an election to win!<\/li>\n
  17. DC Women Kicking Ass – Farewell Mr. & Mrs. Kent<\/a> – Sad to see them (as a couple) go.<\/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 …. Chinese want to capture an asteroid into Earth’s orbit | DVICE – Yeah, another one of those “What could possibly go wrong?” moments. Breaking News: Obama Calls On EPA To Pull Back Ozone Standards – Brilliant move! We’ll save … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 2-Sep-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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[11,77,63,10,527,374,65,16,6,82,376,26,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-economy","category-environment","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-harry-potter","category-money-politics","category-my-mobile-pda","category-potpourri","category-science","category-space","category-taxing-spending","category-travel","category-writing-and-language","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136808,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/protecting-the-administrator-not-the-environment.html","url_meta":{"origin":22483,"position":0},"title":"Protecting the Administrator, not the Environment","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Jun-18 7:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Meanwhile, back in Scott Pruitt Land, we're building a private army, complete with \"tactical polos,\" holsters, and bullet-proof vehicles and breaching kits. 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In his post-nomination period, he's done a lot of fund-raising -- big\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":133166,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/can-religious-charities-make-up-for-a-stingier-government.html","url_meta":{"origin":22483,"position":3},"title":"Can religious charities make up for a stingier government?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Mar-17 2:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yyyeah, pretty much not.I know a lot of religious orgnanizations that are not currently sitting on their butts when it comes to feeding the hungry and caring for the poor. The idea that our current \"welfare state\" takes care of all the lollygaggers and needy is a laugh to begin\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":4763,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/09\/above_and_beyon.html","url_meta":{"origin":22483,"position":4},"title":"Above and beyond","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Jan-04 10:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's looking more and more likely that Bush will call for a new US policy on space travel, including the establishment of a permanent Moon Base. 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