{"id":14550,"date":"2009-04-15T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:13:19","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 15 April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/15\/armitage-torture\/\">Armitage: I should have resigned because of torture.: Satyam Khanna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/04\/jewel-v-nsa-roundup-media-obamas-position\">Jewel v. NSA Roundup: The Media on Obama&#8217;s Position on State Secrecy and Warrantless Wiretapping: hugh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2009\/04\/well_june_1st_might_be_a_good.html\">Well, June 1st might be a good time to be out of town&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; See, I thought Glenn Beck was already doing comedy &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/looking_below_the_pretty_surface\/\">Looking below the pretty surface<\/a> &#8211; Depressing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/15\/goldberg-dhs-left-wing\/\">Goldberg falsely claims that DHS reports never \u201cuse the all-purpose term \u2018left-wing.\u2019\u201d: Matt Corley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/10\/oreilly-beck-harassment\/\">O\u2019Reilly Claims That NBC News And \u2018Internet Haters\u2019 Have Hired \u2018Guys\u2019 To  \u2018Hurt\u2019 Him Personally<\/a> &#8211; Tag under &#8220;Lunatic conspiracy theorist who sees his own bullying nature in all of the folks out to get him.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/15\/scarborough-dhs-report\/\">Scarborough: Obama Is \u2018More Focused On Targeting Veterans\u2019 Than Fighting Al  Qaeda<\/a> &#8211; Scarborough&#8217;s doing his best to ascend to the Limbaugh\/Beck level of demagoguery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/15\/tea-party-dc\/\">DC Tea Party Protesters Agree: \u2018Chairman Maobama\u2019 Is Leading The Country On A Path To Socialism: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ICanHasCheezburger\/~3\/UmX1GAlQFo4\/\">Get off the table!<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, waiting for Mimi to offer that retort.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atheistethicist.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/answers-in-genesis-believe-in-god-or.html\">Answers in Genesis: Believe in God or Die!<\/a> &#8211; My interpretation of the ad &#8212; which is disturbing, regardless &#8212; is not that it&#8217;s okay to shoot atheists, but a rehashing of the old anti-atheism canard, &#8220;Without God in the mix, there can be no morality; if there is no Deity to value human life, it will not be valued by human beings, either.&#8221;  The person being menaced in the ad is not atheists, but everyone.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/gwNh4zzGkBA\/dr-laura-says-gay-couples-are-beautiful.html\">Dr. Laura says gay couples are a &#8220;beautiful thing and a healthy thing&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Innnnnteresting.  Are Dr. Laura and Rick Warren bellwethers of conservatives backing away from their previous anti-gay stances, sensing which way the wind is blowing. If so, it&#8217;s a promising sign.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/3Y2b_bCfZH8\/next-on-gay-marriage-docket-new-york.html\">Next on the gay marriage docket: New York and Maine<\/a> &#8211; Huh.  Weren&#8217;t conservatives dissing New England&#8217;s radicalism back in the early 1770s, too?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/569\/\">Borders<\/a> &#8211; Heh heh heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/CQSa-yoKqwg\/fox-host-wonders-if-obama_n_186998.html\">Fox Host Wonders If Obama Administration Will Send &#8216;Spies&#8217; To Tea Parties<\/a> &#8211; See &#8220;Conspiracy Theories, GOP Descent Into.&#8221;  Though, of course, nobody would be surprised to find out the Bush Administration sent &#8220;spies&#8221; to anti-war protests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/yvnYMWQme0w\/choose-life-license-plate_n_186993.html\">&#8220;Choose Life&#8221; License Plates Become New Abortion Battle<\/a> &#8211; How about we just get rid of the whole specialty plate crap and let license plates identify cars again, rather than car-owner educational background, club affiliation, charitable choices, or political ideology.  There&#8217;s the whole bumper for that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/1CdthgPy264\/colbert-treadmill-nasa-na_n_187081.html\">Colbert Treadmill: NASA Names Exercise Machine After Host<\/a> &#8211; I have to say I&#8217;m just as pleased the node wasn&#8217;t named that way (though I was rooting for &#8220;Serenity&#8221;). But fun acronym.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/Pt3OnoxAcQ0\/coleman-legal-bills-pile_n_187100.html\">Coleman Legal Bills Pile Up: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230; Armitage: I should have resigned because of torture.: Satyam Khanna Jewel v. NSA Roundup: The Media on Obama&#8217;s Position on State Secrecy and Warrantless Wiretapping: hugh Well, June 1st might be a good time to be out of town&#8230; &#8211; See, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 15 April 2009&#8221;<\/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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5744,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/23\/all_your_transi.html","url_meta":{"origin":14550,"position":0},"title":"All your transit projects are belong to us!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Jul-04 6:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"It goes without saying that Native Americans got a raw deal from Europeans on this continent. 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No, it&#8217;s a license!  No, it&#8217;s &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Apr-06 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sony, like any other media giant, seems to want to have it both ways, as long is it adds to the bottom line. 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