{"id":22558,"date":"2011-09-08T23:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T05:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/unblogged-bits-thu-8-sep-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:35:06","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-8-sep-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/unblogged-bits-thu-8-sep-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 8-Sep-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. Colorado doctors still accepting money from drug companies – The Denver Post<\/a> – Caesar’s doctor must be beyond reproach.<\/li>\n
  2. 5 Things That Are Way Easier Than They Look in Movies | Cracked.com<\/a> – It’s amusing that, for all the things that movies make seem so easy, that there are things that movies make look overly hard (or, at least, “professional”).<\/li>\n
  3. Rick Perry Says It\u2019s \u2018Misinformation\u2019 To Suggest He Wants To Abolish Social Security | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Methinks the candidate demurreth too much.<\/li>\n
  4. 4th Circuit Upholds Rule of Law in Healthcare Case | People For the American Way Blog<\/a> – Good news for ACA proponents (e.g., self), but … I’m always a bit hinky about “standing” rulings (as they cut in all directions in often nonsensical ways). I am glad to see that the individual mandate is recognized by a court as the equivalent of a federal tax; I think, on that basis, it will be far more difficult to challenge as something outre.<\/li>\n
  5. APOD: 2011 September 4 – In the Shadow of Saturn<\/a> – Glorious. You want justification for NASA’s budget? Here you go.<\/li>\n
  6. Relive 45 years of Star Trek in one handy timeline<\/a> – Nice.<\/li>\n
  7. Get the dayum gubmint out of our lives!<\/a> – Wait …. was Bachmann (and her cohorts) advocating price controls? No, of course not. That would offend her (et al.) corporate sponsors.<\/li>\n
  8. So is Boehner suggesting the US government regulate all drug prices?: John Aravosis (DC)<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. John Boehner: Most Americans Would Choose Football Over The President<\/a> – If the GOP were really interested in reducing the role of the President to that of Prime Minister, it might be a defensible position. But I have no doubt that the disrespect that the GOP presently shows to Obama will be denounced as near-treason at such time as the GOP retakes the White House. I hate hypocrisy.<\/li>\n
  10. Amazon cuts deal with California on Sales Tax collection<\/a> – Interesting. Well, perhaps the Affiliate programs will then return to Colorado …<\/li>\n
  11. Press reaction: Rick Perry, shallow thinker<\/a> – My initial impression of Perry was that he was a slick Texan politician mouthing conservative thinking to earn votes. I’ve become more and more convinced I was giving him far too much credit.<\/li>\n
  12. Junk Code – SMBC September 08, 2011<\/a> – Django!<\/li>\n
  13. What Good Is a Legal Right to Record Police Activity – If the Cops Target You When You Do It?<\/a> – Until the police who abuse their powers actually face penalties for their actions, they will continue to abuse their power … and discredit the law throughout society.<\/li>\n
  14. Publishers Are Squandering Their Cachet On Imprints<\/a> – Unknown but class-sounding imprints are of value only when there’s a base assumption of quality. I have to wonder — if publishers insist on maintaining these “elite” imprints, will they eventually subtitle them (“Gnosticon – a Random House imprint”)?<\/li>\n
  15. Unclear on the concept<\/a> – “Science is not determined by public opinion, and you don\u2019t settle it by running a poll. Shall we vote on math, chemistry, physics, psychology, history, literature, and Spanish, too?”<\/li>\n
  16. Quote of the Day<\/a> – Yup.<\/li>\n
  17. Judge Rules That South Bend City Council Cannot Give $1,200,000 to Private Catholic School<\/a> – No, they can’t. And they shouldn’t. If a church school really a new football field and athletic track, I’m sure the faithful will support them in the effort without involving all the taxpayers of the city.<\/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 …. Colorado doctors still accepting money from drug companies – The Denver Post – Caesar’s doctor must be beyond reproach. 5 Things That Are Way Easier Than They Look in Movies | Cracked.com – It’s amusing that, for all the … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 8-Sep-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":[35,36,109,99,134,17,28,41,358,16,6,82,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-media-books","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","category-health-care","category-homeland-security","category-media-moguls","category-media-movies","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-science","category-space","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155817,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/04\/my-movie-watching-year-in-review-2021-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":22558,"position":0},"title":"My Movie-Watching Year in Review (2021 Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jan-22 3:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a lot of theater-going, but an MCU rewatch helped the numbers","rel":"","context":"In "Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)"","block_context":{"text":"Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/marvel-cinematic-universe"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":128676,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/movies-out-of-time.html","url_meta":{"origin":22558,"position":1},"title":"Movies Out of Time","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Nov-15 2:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some great work here of movie posters from modern films re-imagined in classic times by Peter Stults. 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