{"id":14826,"date":"2009-05-19T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-19-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:13:08","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-19-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-19-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 19 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:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/~r\/Slashdot\/slashdot\/~3\/g8Ph661jcGk\/article.pl\">Robot Warriors Will Get a Guide To Ethics<\/a> &#8211; Hey, I thought Sarah Connor Chronicles was canceled &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/oddlyenough\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090519\/ap_on_fe_st\/us_odd_runaway_juror\">&#8216;Extremely Bored&#8217; runaway juror faces jail time (AP)<\/a> &#8211; Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/1pQiBMyPbok\/poll-majority-of-minnesotans-want-coleman-to-concede-defeat-to-franken.php\">Poll: Majority Of Minnesotans Want Coleman To Concede Defeat To Franken<\/a> &#8211; Polls are not elections, obviously &#8212; but the GOP sooner or later need to judge whether the long-term fall-out of pressing this will eventually outweigh the short-term advantage of not seating Franken.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/vOkaxEv5oLc\/gops-demographic-losses-point-to-more-right-wing-less-electable-republican-party.php\">GOP&#8217;s Demographic Losses Point To More Right-Wing, Less Electable Republican Party<\/a> &#8211; It seems unlikely that the GOP can &#8220;win&#8221; its way back into office, the direction it&#8217;s moving.  Change will come when the Dems &#8220;lose&#8221; their way out of office.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/19\/gop-counsel-marriage-pedophila\/\">New GOP chief counsel on Senate Judiciary Committee linked gay marriage to pedophilia.: Matt Corley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/simplefeed.consumerreports.org\/rsrc\/link\/_\/palm_pre_to_debut_june_6__786568085?f=79043330-01de-11de-3025-003048605010\">Palm Pre to debut June 6<\/a> &#8211; I suspect this is too little, too late, for Palm.  But I&#8217;m still sentimentally rooting for them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/AJ6rDmH2Qxo\/innocence-schminnocence-w_b_205400.html\">Amnesty International: Innocence, Schminnocence. We&#8217;ve Got an Execution to Put On.: Amnesty International<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2009\/05\/19\/dork-tower-may-19-2009-twit-foruhnevermind\/\">DORK TOWER, May 19, 2009 &#8211; Twit for\u2026uh\u2026nevermind: dorkstorm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/19\/us-sick-leave-policy-make_n_204937.html\">U.S. Sick Leave Policy Makes Nation More Vulnerable To Swine Flu<\/a> &#8211; Next up:  Rush Limbaugh claiming that &#8220;the Obama Administration is trying to socialize our sickbeds,&#8221; or some similar twaddle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2009\/05\/100-geeks-you-should-be-following-on-twitter\/\">100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter | GeekDad | Wired.com<\/a> &#8211; I plan on poking into some of these streams &#8212; but, honestly, I&#8217;ve found there&#8217;s a large difference between and interesting writer and an interesting twitterer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap090519.html\">Sagittarius and the Central Milky Way<\/a> &#8211; This one&#8217;s for my Dad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OfficialGmailBlog\/~3\/1yEpb1fGNz0\/new-in-labs-automatic-message.html\">New in Labs: Automatic message translation<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s pretty cool.  I&#8217;m sure it will be mediocre at best, but that&#8217;s better than nothing.  At least I&#8217;ll be able to understand what those Russian spams are asking me &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/05\/emissions-standards.html\">Emissions Standards<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s about damned time.  In fact, it&#8217;s past damned time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/05\/the-gops-supreme-court-dilemma.html\">The GOP&#8217;s Supreme Court Dilemma<\/a> &#8211; Unfortunately, the far Right will win the battle, even if they lose the War.  The question is, will the defeat just the Center-Right, or will the Dems cave, too?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/michael-steele-era-apologizing-gop-past-mi\">Michael Steele: The Era of Apologizing for GOP Past Mistakes is Officially  Over<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve seen any Republican leader lately admit to any past mistakes, let alone apologize for them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/ysKnWrgszUw\/for-sale-san-francis.html\">For sale: San Francisco church converted to home<\/a> &#8211; Okay, that would be pretty cool to own.  And you could probably pay the mortgage by renting out the parking spaces in the garage!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/pK0Xv1DK6-o\/what-became-of-neand.html\">What Became of Neanderthals? We Ate &#8217;em, Made &#8217;em into Jewelry, Says  Scientist<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Honey?  Let&#8217;s have the Thags over for dinner &#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/porter-apologizes-america-order-save-it\">Porter Apologizes for America In Order to Save It<\/a> &#8211; Wanna bet I can find some crass-ass hateful thing done by the Right that correlates with every one of those disasters, too?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/editorialass.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/publishing-light-bulb-jokes.html\">publishing light bulb jokes<\/a> &#8211; Heh.  Need to forward this to my friend who collects LBJs.<\/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;. Robot Warriors Will Get a Guide To Ethics &#8211; Hey, I thought Sarah Connor Chronicles was canceled &#8230; &#8216;Extremely Bored&#8217; runaway juror faces jail time (AP) &#8211; Yeesh. Poll: Majority Of Minnesotans Want Coleman To Concede Defeat To Franken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-19-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 19 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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14826","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":5669,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/perhaps_hed_sup.html","url_meta":{"origin":14826,"position":0},"title":"Perhaps he&#8217;d support a Free Speech Zone approach","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Jan-04 12:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In defense of \"freedom of speech,\" Al Franken body-slammed a heckler from behind and threw him to the ground at a New Hampshire Dean campaign stop. \"I got down low...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; PC&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ZT &amp; PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3295,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/29\/only_in_america.html","url_meta":{"origin":14826,"position":1},"title":"Only in America &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Dec-02 11:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope it says something grand about our country that, as Al Franken noted in This Week, the number one rapper in the country is white, and the number one...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4526,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/12\/unbalanced.html","url_meta":{"origin":14826,"position":2},"title":"Unbalanced","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Aug-03 3:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm not usually a big fan of Al Franken, all Fox News' lawsuit against him -- suing him for the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media Moguls&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media Moguls","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-moguls"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28999,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/more-on-the-gop-war-on-voters-er-voting-fraud.html","url_meta":{"origin":14826,"position":3},"title":"More on the GOP War on Voters, er, Voting Fraud","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Aug-12 9:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Bad methodology, bad numbers, and overblown solutions that don't actually address anything that resembles a problem. 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