{"id":14738,"date":"2009-05-07T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-07-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-05-07T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T00:01:30","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-07-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-07-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 07 May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/thisisnthappiness\/~3\/v5-7RhXe_YA\/104660596\">Odd Day happens only 6 times a century.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/07\/hannity-waterboarding-update\/\">Hannity\u2019s Two-Week Silence: Is He Ready To Admit Waterboarding Is Torture?: Ali Frick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/05\/report-virtuality-pilot-g.php\">Report: Virtuality pilot gets July 4 airdate on Fox<\/a> &#8211; Noted on the calendar.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/politics\/2009\/05\/07\/obama-did-not-outlaw-religion-he-just-changed-natl-prayer-day-routine\/\">Obama did not outlaw religion &#8211; he just changed Natl Prayer Day routine | csmonitor.com<\/a> &#8211; Limbaugh. Is. An. Ass.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/07\/joe-the-plumber-quitting_n_198920.html\">Joe The Plumber Quitting The GOP: Time Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Here&#8217;s hoping he sinks into richly deserved obscurity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/LIAp8T4eD2k\/no-more-judges-on-the-sup_b_199164.html\">Stanley Kutler: No More Judges on the Supreme Court<\/a> &#8211; I recall Kathleen Sullivan noting that pretty much everyone nominated for some time now has been a judge of some sort.  Compare to the Brown v. Boad of Ed court, where none of them had come from a primarily judicial background.  Sullivan also noted that non-judges on the Court also tend to give shorter, more straightforward, more illustrative opinions, with fewer footnotes.  Not a bad thing at all.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/dhs-report-its-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu-all-over-again\">DHS Report: It&#8217;s D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu All Over Again: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/07\/obama-abstinence-budget\/\">Obama\u2019s budget eliminates funding for abstinence education programs.: Satyam Khanna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/Xr4MUFCtc4g\/governor-david-paterson-d_b_198013.html\">Anthony Papa: Governor David Paterson Does the Right Thing: Anthony Papa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/sleuth\/2009\/05\/_fallout_over_president_obamas.html?hpid=news-col-blog\">The Sleuth &#8211; Obama Burger Firestorm Still Raging<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; okay &#8230; must be a slow news day everywhere.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/\">Blogathon 2009<\/a> &#8211; Making a note to check back in a few weeks &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterdavid.net\/index.php\/2009\/05\/07\/captain-irony-and-the-irony-watch\/\">CAPTAIN IRONY and the Irony Watch: Peter David<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Pvponline\/~3\/l3dIlrFHXaw\/\">The Icing On The Cake<\/a> &#8211; I think most couples who follow this ritual &#8230; follow it in just this way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/every-president-bush-godless-heathen\">Every President But Bush Is a Godless Heathen: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/failure-discriminate-against-gays-opens-gate-other-side\">Failure to Discriminate against Gays &#8220;Opens Gate For the Other Side&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; You know, the more they fulminate about this, the more I hope that Obama does nominate a gay justice, just to watch their heads explode.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/scotus-round-2\">SCOTUS Round-Up<\/a> &#8211; Sorry, for all that these groups are arguing that they are all about critiquing judicial &#8220;philosophy,&#8221; it&#8217;s clear by their examples that they are all about critiquing rulings they don&#8217;t like, the path taken to get to those outcomes being irrelevant.  Abortion is the perfect example of this.  Not that this attitude is a monopoly of the Right.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2009\/05\/07\/a-shortcut-of-sidesteps\/\">A shortcut of sidesteps &#8211; Massively<\/a> &#8211; The idea of starting off as a more &#8220;mature&#8221; hero &#8212; especially if you&#8217;ve already done your time in the lower levels with other characters &#8212; has a lot of appeal to it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/07\/the-american-patriots-bible\/\">The American Patriot\u2019s Bible<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not at all surprised by this, but I am more than a bit disgusted (as both a Christian and an American).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookofblog.com\/rock\/\">Free Texture Images | the book of blog<\/a> &#8211; Ooh, nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2009\/05\/07\/portable-coil-pistol\/\">Portable coil pistol<\/a> &#8211; Ooooooh.  Aaaaah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Odd Day happens only 6 times a century. Hannity\u2019s Two-Week Silence: Is He Ready To Admit Waterboarding Is Torture?: Ali Frick Report: Virtuality pilot gets July 4 airdate on Fox &#8211; Noted on the calendar. Obama did not outlaw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-07-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 07 May 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}