{"id":16460,"date":"2009-12-23T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-23-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-23T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:01:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-23-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-23-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 23 December 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:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18315-innovation-the-sinister-powers-of-crowdsourcing.html\">Innovation: The sinister powers of crowdsourcing &#8211; tech &#8211; 22 December 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5426453\/the-physics-of-space-battles\">The Physics of Space Battles &#8211; Space battle &#8211; Gizmodo<\/a> &#8211; Everything written here makes a lot of sense, which means that 30% of it will be wrong when it comes to the actual event, and another 30% will be disregarded and only learned through hard lessons.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/21\/AR2009122103240.html\">Joe Davidson &#8211; OPM defies order on same-sex benefits &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/anglican_communion\/don_armstrongs_silence_and_oth_1.html\">Don Armstrong&#8217;s silence, and other news on that anti-homosexuals bill &#8211; The Lead<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/grace-91009-rector-church.html\">Start Me Up: New Grace rector helps church start over | grace, rector, church &#8211; Religion &#8211; Colorado Springs Gazette, CO<\/a> &#8211; Glad to hear things are going well down at Grace &amp; St Stephen&#39;s.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatwouldjackdo.net\/2009\/12\/time-to-admit-just-how-fall-i.html\">Time to admit just how far I fall short<\/a> &#8211; Something to consider as we head toward a new year.  I think if everyone could address themselves honestly on these questions, we&#8217;d all &#8220;get along&#8221; a lot better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatwouldjackdo.net\/2009\/12\/teabagger-logic-101.html\">Teabagger Logic 101<\/a> &#8211; A nice way to wrap up the year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2009\/12\/22\/what-a-fruitcake-falwell-lawyer-serves-up-heaping-helping-of-holiday-humbug\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AUblog+%28The+Wall+of+Separation%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">What A Fruitcake!: Falwell Lawyer Serves Up Heaping Helping Of Holiday Humbug | The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; If you don&#8217;t want people imposing their religion on you and yours, then don&#8217;t impose yours on them.  It seems pretty straightforward to me, but some folks figure that they&#8217;re cool with it all as long as they&#8217;re the ones who get to impose.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/12\/22\/report-afghanistan-defense-budget\/\">REPORT: How To Pay For The Troop Escalation In Afghanistan By Cutting The  Defense Budget<\/a> &#8211; If it&#8217;s important enough to fight for, it&#8217;s important enough to pay for.  If we&#8217;re not going to raise defense taxes, we should cut defense spending.  Isn&#8217;t that what the GOP would argue on any other subject?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/UgLIkQedbl0\/report_finds_no_recent_funding_violations_by_acorn.php\">Report Finds No Recent Funding Violations By ACORN<\/a> &#8211; Pish-tosh &#8230; let&#8217;s not let little things like facts get in the way of the public pillorying!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/scarborough-needs-money-stop-sodomites\">Scarborough Needs Money To Stop The Sodomites<\/a> &#8211; Money graf&#8221; &#8220;Have I mentioned recently that Scarborough served on Mike Huckabee&#8217;s Faith and Family Values Coalition during his run for president?  I just think it is important to keep pointing that out.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tfninsider.org\/2009\/12\/21\/the-year-in-quotes-science\/\">The Year in Quotes: Science \u00ab Texas Freedom Network<\/a> &#8211; Some fine, fine reasons to not let your kid get educated in Texas.<\/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;. Innovation: The sinister powers of crowdsourcing &#8211; tech &#8211; 22 December 2009 &#8211; New Scientist The Physics of Space Battles &#8211; Space battle &#8211; Gizmodo &#8211; Everything written here makes a lot of sense, which means that 30% of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-23-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 23 December 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-16460","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":33325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/washcloths-in-spaaaaace.html","url_meta":{"origin":16460,"position":0},"title":"Washcloths! 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