{"id":15086,"date":"2009-06-25T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-25-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-06-25T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:00:31","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-25-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-25-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 25 June 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\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/oXPH02KPNso\/missouri-state-rep-cynthia-davis-doubly-honored-worst-person-and-more\">Missouri State Rep Cynthia Davis- Doubly Honored &#8220;Worst Person&#8221; and More<\/a> &#8211; Lovely!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/n0q3cD1ZeXs\/waterboarding-used-o.html\">Waterboarding used on pot suspects, says London police officer<\/a> &#8211; People argue against lowering the drinking age to 18 because it will &#8220;bleed over&#8221; into 16-year-olds drinking.  Similarly, normalizing torture for terrorists &#8220;bleeds over&#8221; for torture of criminal suspects.  QED.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/1qhm8RHzE9c\/rent-a-truck-from-u+haul-if-you-want-to-stay-put\">Rent A Truck From U-Haul If You Want To Stay Put [Moving]<\/a> &#8211; Given that U-Haul is infamous for mechanical problems, it&#8217;s nice that they&#8217;re eliminating the whole problem through their reservation system.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/fY6wb415Swk\/facebook-encourages-open-marriagesjust-ask-dans-wife\">Facebook Encourages Open Marriages\u2014Just Ask Dan&#8217;s Wife [Funny]<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, this kind of thing (&#8220;Fred Smith really wants you to take this test and let us try and sell you cell phone coverage!&#8221;) is one of the less attractive parts of Facebook.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/fAAfKdwXFoo\/health-insurance-ver.html\">Health insurance versus health<\/a> &#8211; The problem is that insurance has stopped being a strategy and has become a necessity &#8212; and that for-profit provision of insurance has an intrinsic conflict of interest in it.  You can&#8217;t make money by paying for people&#8217;s health care, unless you charge more than you pay out.  And you can only charge so much, so the incentive is to come out with ways of paying less.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/vkSNWdaavbA\/monticellos-clever-w.html\">Monticello&#8217;s clever windvane<\/a> &#8211; That Jefferson was one clever tinkerer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/BSj668R6oIQ\/\">The blue and the green<\/a> &#8211; This is one of the better write-ups I&#8217;ve seen of this.  It&#8217;s very cool (and more proof that our brains seriously screw around with what we actually see).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/230-jNxtzYw\/few-referndum-71-endorsers-upport-the-campaign\">Few Referendum 71 Endorsers $upport the Campaign<\/a> &#8211; A brilliant way to correlate data.  I look forward to seeing more ads of this sort (from every side).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagotribune.com\/~r\/chicagotribune\/news\/local\/~3\/ACoSC4hCbBo\/chi-roland-burris-disclosure-faijun25,0,2756418.story\">Sen. Roland Burris failed to reveal he has options to buy stock in a company where he was a board member, records show<\/a> &#8211; Well, yeah, duh, he&#8217;s going to amend his disclosure now that it&#8217;s been shown to be incomplete.  So?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/its_funny_but_it_doesnt_make_me_want_to_eat_the_sandwich\/\">It\u2019s funny, but it doesn\u2019t make me want to eat the sandwich.<\/a> &#8211; Hrm.  Yeah.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/swO0KRhtPvI\/family-equality-councils-chrisler-movement-malpractice\">Family Equality Council&#8217;s Chrisler: &#8216;Movement Malpractice?&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; I very much understand (and share my small sliver of, as a supporter) the disappointment from the gay community at the lack of action from the Obama Administration, whether they are playing the &#8220;long game&#8221; or not.  But, honestly, even if it&#8217;s solely a dog-and-pony, that&#8217;s a hell of a lot more access than the gay community has gotten to the White House in the last decade, and throwing it away in a snit would, yes, be &#8220;movement malpractice.&#8221;  Take what you can get &#8212; dig in your fingers &#8212; and use that as a leg up for more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Dj1S_2MP2Ko\/life-with-a-100-lb-r.html\">Life with a 100 lb rodent that sounds like a Geiger counter when it&#8217;s happy<\/a> &#8211; I always love seeing these guys at the zoo.  I had no idea that people actually owned them as pets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/15KpTMLgQpo\/world-war-ii-twitter.html\">World War II + Twitter = Propaganda Hilarity<\/a> &#8211; Brilliant!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/logan-murphy\/shocking-fox-news-labels-disgraced-re\">SHOCKING: Fox News Labels Disgraced Republican Mark Sanford &#8212; A Democrat<\/a> &#8211; Fair and balanced &#8230; right?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/steaming-stew-right-wing-paranoia\">A Steaming Stew of Right Wing Paranoia<\/a> &#8211; Make a note of this one when these emails start circulating the Net.  The only question in my mind is whether these folks are sincerely this paranoid, or trying simply to whip up paranoia amongst their manipulated followers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/06\/about-that-unfairness.html\">About That &#8220;Unfairness&#8221;: publius<\/a><\/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;. Missouri State Rep Cynthia Davis- Doubly Honored &#8220;Worst Person&#8221; and More &#8211; Lovely! Waterboarding used on pot suspects, says London police officer &#8211; People argue against lowering the drinking age to 18 because it will &#8220;bleed over&#8221; into 16-year-olds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-25-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 25 June 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-15086","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":808,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/13\/theres_torture.html","url_meta":{"origin":15086,"position":0},"title":"There&#8217;s torture, and then there&#8217;s torture","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Nov-01 9:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Collin Levey notes in the Christian Science Monitor how talk of using torture on terrorism suspects has \"in dizzying speed ... gone from the province of the deranged and authoritarian...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24131,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/i-dont-think-its-technically-torture-so-it-must-be-okay.html","url_meta":{"origin":15086,"position":1},"title":"I don&#39;t think it&#39;s technically torture, so it must be okay!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Nov-11 11:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, let's be sure to defend a moral disaster and pragmatic waste of time on the basis of (a poor reading of) \"technical rules.\" Just the president we want. #ddtb Embedded Link Gingrich Changes His Position: \u2018Waterboarding Is, By Every Technical Rule, Not Torture\u2019 Back in 2009, when the public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13003,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/was_mccain_tortured_in_vi.html","url_meta":{"origin":15086,"position":2},"title":"Was McCain tortured in Viet Nam?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Aug-08 10:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, of course he was. 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