{"id":22664,"date":"2011-09-13T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/unblogged-bits-tue-13-sep-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-09-13T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-13-sep-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/unblogged-bits-tue-13-sep-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 13-Sep-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. Todd Gregory: Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip<\/a> – Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  2. Happy 10th Anniversary Of Being Blamed For 9\/11: Kyle Mantyla<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Republicans wage war on good government, and no one notices – War Room – Salon.com<\/a> – “This is a war on the basic functionality of the federal government, not any sort of philosophical conservative attack on government overreach. Denying political “victories” to political opponents is the primary goal here, and the fact that making government dysfunctional gives heft to the argument that government can’t be trusted is really just a nice side benefit.”<\/li>\n
  4. Wash Post: Obama health care plan didn\u2019t cut Medicare like Bachmann and Romney claimed<\/a> – Don’t let your facts get in the way of our talking points!<\/li>\n
  5. Romney Promises to Outlaw Political Contributions from Union Dues<\/a> – As opposed to, say, an employer who might take the profits based on the work I’ve done and … make contributions “to elect people who might do their bidding”? Dolt.<\/li>\n
  6. NC GOP Lawmaker: Gays Could ‘Lose Rights’ Without Marriage Ban<\/a> – Let’s see — institutions extended benefits (“rights” in Folwell’s eyes, though I suspect he’d fight tooth and nail if someone tried to declare health care a “right”) to gay domestic partners because they couldn’t get married like straights. In NY, that is no longer the case, so institutions are rolling back those exceptions. That’s not “losing rights,” dolt, that’s recognizing the rights now in place.<\/li>\n
  7. Criminally Confident in Our Kids: lskenazy<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Tea Party Audience Cheers The Concept Of Letting Sick People Die \u00ab Alan Colmes’ Liberaland<\/a> – Wonder how many of these sociopaths were wailing and gnashing their teeth about the Terri Schiavo case, or were outraged over Dr Kevorkian, or nod their heads in pious gravity over the parable of the Good Samaritan?<\/li>\n
  9. FBI says three pulled from Frontier flight were strangers – The Denver Post<\/a> – I wouldn’t call it an “abundance of caution,” I’d call it paranoia. Especially as the news story has evolved.<\/li>\n
  10. Census: US poverty rate swells to nearly 1 in 6 – The Denver Post<\/a> – I’m sure if we just cut off unemployment and ratchet back welfare, then this problem will solve itself, either by rich people using all those tax savings to hire on people at living wages, or because folks will die “and decrease the surplus population.”<\/li>\n
  11. Pope accused of crimes against humanity by victims of sex abuse | World news | guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Poll Technica: would you sign up for Amazon e-book subscriptions?<\/a> – Books-as-a-service? Hmmmm. I guess it’s sort of like the library. On the one hand, I still want to “own” my books. On the other hand, I think, “why?”<\/li>\n
  13. The Republican War on (Certain Kinds Of) Voting | Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Survey: Do You Think Most People Try to Take Advantage of You?<\/a> – Interesting.<\/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 …. Todd Gregory: Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip – Yeesh. Happy 10th Anniversary Of Being Blamed For 9\/11: Kyle Mantyla Republicans wage war on good government, and no one notices – War Room – Salon.com … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 13-Sep-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-22664","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":8486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/the_city_down_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":22664,"position":0},"title":"The City Down Below","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-05 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fascinating story about an \"underground city\" that was set up in the UK during the Cold War to house the government in case of a nuclear war. 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