{"id":23104,"date":"2011-10-15T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/unblogged-bits-sat-15-oct-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-10-15T23:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-15-oct-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/unblogged-bits-sat-15-oct-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 15-Oct-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. What English Sounds Like to People Who Don’t Speak It<\/a> – I keep leaning closer to see if I can understand it — because it sounds like if I just … listen … better … I’ll be able to understand it.<\/li>\n
  2. New Deal accomplishments: Do conservatives who attack the New Deal actually know what America gained from it? – Slate Magazine<\/a> – What makes the New Deal prone to attack is that there are too many monied interests who see the Gilded Age — prior to even the Progressive Movement a half-century before FDR — as something to aspire a return to, when those who had money could make more, and not worry about income taxes, regulations, worker safety, collective bargaining, or any of those things that cost them … well, money.<\/li>\n
  3. Vandals Threaten Anti-Gay-Rights Group | Friendly Atheist<\/a> – And why that’s a stupid, counter-productive idea.<\/li>\n
  4. Stupid Fox Nation Photo Editing Proves Michelle Malkin Is An Idiot<\/a> – Double-checked it. Yup, that’s the picture that’s still there.<\/li>\n
  5. Historical Revisionism, Politics And The Religious Right<\/a> – Excellent reading. It’s worth noting that while we’ve had a profound separation of church and state in a legal fashion — acknowledged and believed in — this has only become an issue in recent decades because socially<\/i> we are ceasing to be an actively Christian nation. We were not legally a Christian nation, but we were societally one. That’s changing, and the Christianists of the Right are terrified of their loss of being the norm, the default standard that they can appeal to and control. Thus the historical revisionism of dolts like David Barton.<\/li>\n
  6. THIS, THIS, THIS.<\/a> – “Instead of coming back and working with this economy to get back on its feet, they hired lobbyists by the dozen to fight tooth and nail against any efforts whatsoever to bring common sense regulation to the financial industry. Instead of coming back and working with the people, they hired an army of robosigners to process millions of foreclosures. In many cases, without even having the proper paperwork to evict the homeowners. Instead, the banks announced layoffs in the tens of thousands, so that executives at the top of the pile could maintain their outrageous levels of compensation.” I’m not interested in seeing things get to the Torches and Pitchforks level, because then good stuff gets destroyed along with the bad. But too many of the elite are not only tone-deaf to the anger brewing out there, they seem to positively delight in being “entitled” to bail-outs and social irresponsibility.<\/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 …. What English Sounds Like to People Who Don’t Speak It – I keep leaning closer to see if I can understand it — because it sounds like if I just … listen … better … I’ll be able to … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 15-Oct-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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23104","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":30547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/right-of-first-sale-under-attack.html","url_meta":{"origin":23104,"position":0},"title":"Right of First Sale under attack","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Oct-12 11:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It sounds like a goofy, legalistic concept, but the Right of First Sale is a huge part of our economy, most especially at the individual level.The original publisher of a book, for example, can set its wholesale price, and determine in what stores it can be sold. 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